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AUGUST CAST. 
E.F.WITTLER. 
L.J.W.WALL. 
O. D GRAY. 
215.217 a2l9 PINE ST 

ST. LOUIS. 



AUGUST GAST. 

E.F.WITTLER. 

L.J.W.WALL. 

O O. GRAY, 

20 WARREN STREt 

NEWYORK 







THE — 



INDUSTRIKS 



OF 



SAINT LOUIS: 



HER ADVANTAGES, RESOURCES, FACILITIES AND 
COMMERCIAL RELATIONS AS A CICNTER OF TRADE AND MANUFACTURE ; 



TOGETHER WITH A 



DELINEATION OF REPRESENTATIVE 



Industrial and Commercial Establishments. 



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ST, LOUIS, MO.: 

J. M. ELSTNER & CO., Publishers, 

1885. 



COPYRIGHTED 1885. 



J. -M. ELSTXER & CO. 




PRKKACK. 



IT has been the aim of the authors, in compiling and editing The Industries 
OF St. Louis, to present the public with a concise and accurate work on 
the many natural and artificial advantages of the city, and incidentally of the 
State, relative to trade, commerce and manufactures ; to note the cardinal 
causes that have combined to produce these results, and to call attention to 
present conditions and future probabilities. Except in the selection of the his- 
torical data, and the commercial, manufacturing and financial statistics which k 
contains, but little originality is claimed for the book, space having been pei- 
mitted for the salient features of the times only. 

Relying upon these merits, and the sourwi judgment of the public for 
success, the work is committed to the press with these few words of explanation. 

AljJDREW MORRISON, 
J. H. C. IRWIN. 
Sf. Louis, Septeviber, jSS^. 




The Bl-mr Monument, Forest Park. 

W. W. Gardner, Sculptor. 



CONTKNTS, 



I'ACK. 

The P.vsr 711 

Present and Future ....-..- 12-53 

Trade and Commerce 16-22 

Transportation; Exports and Imporis - - - - 23-29 

The Grain Trade --------- 30 

Cotton and Wool -------- 32 

Live Stock . - . . 33 

Hides and Lf.aihrr 34 

Hardware ...-..-.-- 35 

Grocery - - . . - 35-6 

Dry Goods . . - . 36-7 

Banking and Finance .-.---.- 38-39 

Leading Manufactures - - - - 40-51 

Iron - - - - 40-41 

Flour 41-42 

Brewing - - . - 43 

Tobacco 43-47 

Saddlery, Boors, Shoes, eic. 47-48 

Furniture 48 

Building 49 

Wood 50 

Native Wines; Drugs; Clothing . . . . . 51 

The Municipality - - - 53 

Exposition -- 55 

The Metropolitan Press 5^-59 

Representative Houses - 61-222 



PROMINENT ILLUSTRATIONS. 



The Blair Monument 4 

Crow Art Museum - 6 

Chamber of Commerce - - - - 16 

Illinois and St. Louis Bridge - - 24 

New Grand Opera House .---.--. 52 

Exposition Building - - - - - -- - - 55 

National Stock Yards .-.--.-.. 96 

The St. James Hotel 118 

The Turner Building T46 

The Southern Hotel .----... 170 

The Laclede Hotel -.--..,.. 183 



THE PAST. 



ORIGIN, EARLY HISTORY, AND PROGRESS OF 
ST. LOUIS. 



JUDGED by the steady increase of population that she has had, the com- 
mercial advancement of St. Louis has been continuous from the very foun- 
dation of the trading post by Pierre Laclede Ligueste in 1764. The statistics 
of her growth compare faithfully with the development and expansion of the 
vast region for which she is now the metropolis. For the first forty years of her 
existence, the industries of her inhabitants were the simple avocations of the 
people of a frontier town, and even for some years after the American occupa- 
tion the fur trade was her chief source of wealth; but as the Indians and game 
gradually retired before the westward march of civilization, agricultural pursuits 
began to contribute to the prosperity of the town, and, with their extension, 
manufactures slowly but surely followed, until now the city is everj^where recog- 
nized as one of the great American centers of mechanical and industrial enter- 
prise. The historical incidents that preface an account of these later affairs 
may briefly be paragraphed at this point, by way of introduction to the more im- 
portant matter giving evidence of her progress, prosperity and prospects. 

THE COLONIAL ANNALS. 

The adventurous descent of the great river by La Salle in 1688, and Father 
Marquette's perilous journey from Canada to the Mississippi, pioneered the way 
for more thorough attempts at settlement in the far interio; of the Western Con- 
tinent by French authority. Accordingly, in February of 1764, August Chou- 
teau, Commander Laclede's lieutenant, removed the government stores from 
Fort de Chartres to the site of the present City of St. Louis, for a permanent 
station. A month later Laclede arrived and named the place, with soldierly loy- 
alty, after his royal master, Louis XV. But little more than this military estab- 
lishment had been attempted, when, in 1769, the cession of the territory of 
Louisiana, which was then the name for all the Mississippi possessions of France, 

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8 THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 



was made to Spain. The Spanish regime was one of Hberal administration. 
Large land grants, unrestricted intercourse with the United States, and other 
encouragement for settlement, distinguished the policy of Commandantes Man- 
uel Perez, 1788 to 1793 ; of Zenon Tradeau, 1793 to 1798; and of Delassus, 
1798 to the consummation of President Jefferson's purchase in 1804. 

UNDER THE STARS AND STRIPES. 

The authority of the United States was at first exercised by Gen. Wm. H. 
Harrison, Governor also of the territory of Indiana; but the next year (1805) 
Gen. James Wilkinson became the Governor of the district north of the thirty- 
third parallel, which, by act of Congress, had been divided from the possessions 
along the Gulf. In the eleven years from 1799 on. the population of the town 
had increased nearly 600, and was recorded in 1810 as 1,400. The first news- 
paper, the Missouri Republican, was published by Joseph Charless in 1808. 
The year 181 1 is memorable as that of the battle of Tippecanoe, which was 
most effective in disciplining the hostile Indians, and of the great earthquake 
that upheaved the whole Mississippi Valley. The first steamboat launched into 
Western waters, the " New Orleans," built by Roosevelt, of New York, was al- 
most overwhelmed by this fearful catastrophe in the neighborhood of Pittsburo-. 

The characteristic methods of the new-comers speedily developed great 
natural resources in the territory of Missouri. In the next decade such an im- 
petus had been given to commercial and agricultural affairs by the Americans 
that by 1818, admission was sought for it into the Union of States. This pro- 
gressive period, however, was not unmarked by serious incidents and by reverses, 
notwithstanding which St. Louis grew apace. She was still a great fur market, 
but industries of greater breadth were being ventured' on. In August of 1816 
the Bank of St. Louis was chartered, with a capital of $250,000, and the year 
following that is the year of the arrival of the first steamboat, the "Pike," built 
in Kentucky. 

THE THIRST FOR RICHES. 

The year 1817, because of its events, has been called "the maniacal year." 
Extraordinary sales of the public lands were made by the Government. There 
was a general scramble to get wealth, and a consequent business inflation. Un- 
necessary enterprises, such as the building of churches and theaters, were under- 
taken, and never completed. The business of the whole country was then de- 
pressed to the verge of insolvency, and the eagerness to get capital resulted in 
such expedients as state lotteries, which the Missourians were not slow to imi- 
tate. The agitation upon the Slavery issue that arose out of the application for 
admission in 18 18, produced an accompanying stagnation of business. The 
courts were thronged with creditors. Sheriffs sales were frequent. The unem- 
ployed were numerous. Immigration was suspended and the lands made un- 
salable by the political considerations that were presented in this controversy. 

But, from the passage of the Missouri Compromise Bill, admitting the state 
recuperation began. Whilst Missouri was a territory the whole taxable property 



THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 



of St. Louis was assessed at less than $1,000,000, and the total annual taxes 
collected were about $4,000. In 1820 the population was 5,000, one quarter 
of whom were French families. The fur trade was then estimated at $600,000. 
The city was incorporated in 1822 with Dr. Wm. Lane Carr as Mayor. Lewis 
Newell's foundry was established in 1824. By 1826 industrial pursuits had taken 
firm hold ; freighting on the river was now being done by steamboats ; coal was 
coming into use ; lead mining in the vicinity of the city assisted the general ani- 
mation of trade. A few years later manufactories were sufficiently numerous in 
the northern part of the city to make that district especially noticeable. Rec- 
ords of those days illustrate the simple but comprehensive character of these 
early projects: 

"July loth, 1836, Capt. Martin Thomas' first flour, lumber and lead mill 
was burned." 

Cholera was epidemic in 1830, and again in 1833. Although the mortality 
was frightful, its direful effects were but temporary. Most spirited efforts were 
still made to keep abreast of the times. On the 20th of April, 1835, a railroad 
convention of sixty-four state delegates met in St. Louis to take measures to in- 
crease the transportation faciHties of this section. A daily issue of the Missouri 
Republican made its appearance ; the year 1837 saw gas in use, and a St. Louis- 
built steamboat afloat. 

TEMPORARY EMB.\RRASSMENTS. 

The historical financial crisis of 1837 was safely passed by the St. Louis 
business community, with less of distress than was experienced elsewhere. The 
Bank of the State of Missouri had been chartered early in that year to do busi- 
ness upon a capital of $5,000,000. The act of incorporation excluded all other 
bank agencies from the State, thus giving it great power and extraordinary priv- 
ileges. During the panic, indignation was loudly expressed by some of its pa. 
trons, against the management of the institution, because of their refusal to 
honor the paper of its correspondenis. But events subsequently proved this 
decision to have been sound, timely and beneficial to all concerned. 

Some idea of the commerce of the city in the year 1840, when the pop- 
ulation wag- -16,469, may be got from these figures, showing the traffic in the 
leading commodities,: 

Hour manufactured, 19,075 barrels; whisky marketed, 18,656 barrels; beef, 
1,075 barrels; coal, 7,640 wagons, 2,342 carts. 

These details contrast but meanly with the enormous transactions of to-day, 
but they indicated then a promising future, that has since been fully realized. 

YEARS OF PLENTY. 

By 1842, St. Louis had become "a manufacturing center." The steamboat 
"St. Louis Oak" was constructed within the city limits, engines, machinery and 
all. In 1 84 1, the coal trade at this point, as shown by the Public Weigher's fig- 
ures, had assumed significant proportions. There was handled at his scales 
ov^r half a million bushels. Abundant crops and a profitable harvest, made 



lO THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 

great activity in all branches of business during the year 1843. The building 
trade in St. Louis was especially brisk, 300 brick houses being in process of 
erection. The mechanics of the city were sufficiently numerous to sustain an 
independent poHtical movement that resulted in the election of a workingman 
Mayoi. The population in 1844 was more than double what it had been four 
years before. There were no less than 2100 steamboat arrivals in 1845. The 
Boatmen's Saving Bank, founded in 1847, was a creation of this halcyon period 
for the river men. A telegraph line connecting St. Louis with the Atlantic sea- 
board, was constructed about that time. At a public meeting in this same year, 
$500,000 was subscribed to assist the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad. 

There were disastrous months in the fall of '48 and in the beginning of '49. 
The cholera raged again, and a great conflagration destroyed buildings, steam- 
boats and other craft, valued at more than $3,000,000. But these calamities 
were ineffectual obstacles to the rise of a great city. From 1850 to i860 most 
remarkable strides in population, wealth and commerce were made. The in- 
habitants had increased in these ten years from 74,000 to 190,000. A trans- 
continental railroad scheme was publicly discussed, and the co-operation of Con- 
gress therein urged, so far back as 1849, and on the Fourth of July, 1851, ground 
was broken for a Pacific railway. In the year just preceding the War, the water 
supply, sewerage and school systems of St. Louis were elaborated and improved. 
At the outbreak of hostilities, she was the greatest of Western cities. 

THE PERIOD OF THE WAR. 

In 1861, the South was St. Louis' best market for produce and provisions, 
xiesides having the lead of all other Western points in these lines and in that 
direction, she also had the carrying trade. In the beginning, the war severely 
crippled this commerce, but later on the situation was reversed to her great ad- 
vantage. To quote from an account published long since : — 

" For a time the steamboat interest was apparendy destroyed. Communi- 
cation with the lower Mississippi was entirely cut off, and the packet lines were 
greatly hampered by miUtary restrictions. The immense produce and provision 
trade ceased, and the future of St. Louis looked gloomy in the extreme. But 
steamboat owners, merchants and manufacturers in a little while began to ex- 
perience a more hopeful state of affairs. The wants of the Government gave 
emplojmient, at remunerative rates, to such of the steamboats as were not profit- 
ably engaged in the carrying trade of the city. The grocery merchant whose 
supply market at New Orleans had been cut off, found a more enlarged depot 
of supplies in New York, to which place the operations of the war turned all 
wholesale merchandisers. As the field of occupancy of the Federal army was 
enlarged, the spirits of our merchants and manufacturers recovered. The old 
packet lines were re-estabHshed, and new ones came also into the field. St. 
Louis, as the most convenient point of supply for the rich valleys of the Cum- 
berland and Tennessee rivers, received that and a very considerable trade be- 
sides from Memphis and the country bordering on the Mississippi below Cairo. 
From 1862 fonvard the business of St. Louis revived, and in a little while it ex- 



THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. II 



ceeded that done before the war. The restoration of peace found the dty 
greatly increased in population, the area for trade enlarged three fold, the steam- 
boat interest doubled, the manufactories more numerous, and their product mul- 
tiphed, and all the various departments of industry quickened into new life. 
Since the war, with all the channels of trade open and unobstructed, — notwith- 
standing the rivalry of other markets, the embarrassments of finance and the 
fluctuation of values, St. Louis has not only retained the business thus attracted 
to her, but has reached out into new and further fields for enterprise." 

IN RECENT YEARS. 

Eventful as this time of war was to the tradesmen of St. Louis, the twenty 
years of peace that follow it to date, are, in a commercial sense, the most 
marvelous of her history. The narrative of this latest period is one of con- 
stant change and transition, always, however, in the direction of progress. The 
rapid extension of the great railroad systems of the country, has accelerated 
every interest and employment of the city almost beyond expectation. By the 
Mississippi bridge, begun with legislative assistance in 1865, and completed in 
1874, which has made for its builder, James B. Eads, a world-wide reputation, a 
sufficient indication of greatness is conveyed. But it is in the extent of her 
transactions in the agricultural staples, in the magnitude, number and variety of 
the manufacturing concerns that flourish, and in the breadth of her patronage — 
taking in territory so far distant as the city of Mexico — that the spirit and speed 
of the mercantile classes of St. Louis are made apparent. These interests are 
described in detail in the chapters that follow. 

The increased valuation put upon property by the municipaKty for purposes 
of assessment and taxation, most aptly illustrates the advances made by St. 
Louis, in the past twenty years. Real estate valued at $53,205,820, and per- 
sonal property to the amount of $63,059,078, was assessed in the year 1864, a 
total of $116,264,898. The official figures for 1884 show that the tax collec- 
tions were based upon an assessment of $178,596,650 for real estate, and $210, 
124,370 for personal property, a total of $388,721,020. In the former year the. 
population was about 200,000 To-day it is estimated to be 450,000. 



PRESENT AND FUTURE. 



THE CITY OF TO-DAY— HER PROSPERITY AND 
PROSPECTS. 



HOWEVER interesting it might be to dwell upon the period of romance 
and incident outlined in the preceding chapter, the faithful chronicles 
of passing events must give the stern realities of the present an unadorned 
narration. To a practical and proletarian people, ideas are conveyed by the 
facts and statistics, culled from all the sources at command, and hereinafter 
presented, that mere raciness and fluency never suggest. The characteristics 
of the St. Louis commercial community have altered much since the close of 
the war and the extirpation of slavery. A certain inertness — sometimes called 
"conservatism" — that then seemed to prevail, has now almost entirely disap- 
peared. Ancient social habits and business methods have been discarded for 
persistency, vigor and breadth in the management of affairs. 

NATURAL ADVANTAGES EMPHASIZED. 

Much Stress has been laid upon the natural advantages of St. Louis ar 
affecting her future ; and these advantages are indeed great. Such thinkers as 
the late Horace Greeley, Charles Sumner, Gen. Benj. F. Butler, and others from 
the East who have visited St. Louis, have joined resident enthusiasts in pre- 
dicting that she is to become the great commercial depot and entrepot of the 
world. " This magnificent continental capital," John W. Forney called her, 
and through others she has come to be known as the " Future Great." 

While as yet these remarkable horoscopic utterances have not been ful- 
filled in fact, still St. Louis has become in many respects a Present Great. 
Located in the heart of the great Mississippi Valley, the most fertile in pro- 
duction in the world, not excepting the region of the Ganges or the Nile 
accessible by fifteen thousand miles of navigable rivers, and with a net-work; 
of trunk line railroads furnishing a thousand avenues for trade and connecting 
producer and consumer, St. Louis ought to be and is prosperous ; and this less 
by the aid of the " manifest destiny " theorists, than by the agency of those 
energetic business men, who, laboring for the present, necessarily affect the 
future also. 



THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 1 3 

COMMERCIAL ACHIEVEMENTS. 

The men who live in the present have made St. Louis the largest wheat 
market (not in a speculative sense) in the country ; the greatest flour market in 
the world ; the greatest center of the tobacco manufacturing industry on the 
continent; the largest horse and mule market (both receiving and shipping) 
in America; the largest in the manufacture of saddlery in the United States; 
the largest in hardware dealings, and in several other lines of manufacturing 
industry, have placed her in the front rank with respect to extent and value of 
productions. Tributary territory has been enlarged, new markets have been 
opened up, and St. Louis is recognized as the commercial metropolis of a larger 
extent of country than any other Western city. 

The citizens of St. Louis have ever manifested the utmost confidence in 
the present and future prosperity of the city as a trade center ; and in their 
enthusiasm some have been concerned in movements to urge upon the people 
of the United States the practicabiHty of making this the National Capital. A 
convention in that interest was held in Mercantile Library Hall, on Oct. 26, 
1869, which was attended by representatives of seventeen Western and Southern 
States and Territories. A report presented by Mr. Joseph Medill, of the 
Chicago Tribune, was adopted, urging the removal of the seat of government 
to the Mississippi Valley, and through an executive committee the project was 
kept before the public for some years. It did not succeed ; but the failure dis- 
pirited no one, for St. Louisans have ever taken great satisfaction in contem- 
plating that ideal of Benton's, a " continental capital." 

MISTAKEN FANCIES. 

But the enterprise of St. Louis manufacturers and business men has been 
best displayed in surmounting and overcoming obstacles from within as well as 
without. Singular as it may appear, the greatest obstruction in her career of 
progress has been the visionary idea that her strength lay wholly in her natural 
advantages, and that without especial effort on her part a vast volume of trade 
would necessarily flow, in the natural channel, to this commercial oudet. 

Competitors from without scouted the paramount influence of geography 
in building up a trade center and substituted for nature the arts and industries, 
and methods of man, as factors in production and exchange. Leagued with 
railroads in diverting trade out of its natural channel, Chicago became a suc- 
cessful competitor for commerce that by all natural laws belonged to St. Louis. 
The very advantages that the natural metropolis of the Mississippi Valley pos- 
sesses became a detriment to her, because not fully utilized. The great bridge 
across the Mississippi, connecting eastern and western trunk Hnes, was made the 
pretext for charging excessive tolls, and odious discrimination in tariff rates from 
the East proved at once a drawback to trade extension in St. Louis and an aid 
to competing cities in their aspirations for commerce. 

River transportation had been looked to as a relief from the excessive cost 
of freight movement by rail, but there were drawbacks incident to that natural 
advantage, until an expensive and comprehensive system of rendering tlie 



14 THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 

« Father of Waters " safely and easily na%ngable at nearly all seasons was under- 
taken by the Federal government. This work is still in progress. In 1881, Mr. 
Nimmo, chief of the Federal Bureau of Statistics, in his report upon inland 
commerce, clearly demonstrated that a change had necessarily taken place in 
the conditions governing the movements of commerce in St. Louis, and that 
traffic hitherto almost exclusively confined to the Mississippi river and its tribu- 
taries, now patronized railroad Hnes extending from the city in all directions, 
each route becoming an avenue of commerce. 

The interest of railroad corporations was attracted to the city. Vast sn's- 
tems covering the entire South, Southwest and West were developed. Extensive 
connections with the Northwest were perfected. The St. Louis people took 
new courage and utilized acquired and natural advantages in behalf of an exten- 
sion of commerce. Thus competition was effectively met, and instead of 
awaiting the •' manifei^t destiny" so often prophesied as an heritage, the trades- 
men of the city have been pushing out into new and other fields for patronage, 
with results that are already noticeable. 

MANUFACTURES HER MAIN STAY. 

It was earlv to be discerned that the permanent growth and prosperity of 
the center of a valley of continental proportions, was to be secured by making 
the citv a productive as well as a distributive point. The theory of natural 
advantages is illustrative of what is meant by a distributive center, while a com- 
bination of the factors of natural and acquired advantages best illustrates what 
is comprehended in the phrase a productive one. The latter is also and neces- 
sarily the most durable, stable and certain. 

It is within the recollection of those who have given the subject thought, 
that many towns and cities most favorably located and established as distributive 
centers have been subsequently annihilated or obliterated from the map. by the 
construction of new railway outlets, or otherwise. Rxamples are no: wanting in 
Western and Southern history of localities made active distributive centers — 
such as Alton, lUinois, for instance, once was— by superior railway facilities, and 
subsequently reduced to a fonner condition by tlie ven- agency tiiat had built 
them up, only to confer greater favor upon competing locaUties. 

But a city grown great through productive commerce, will always possess a 
material element of prosperity, and will also be a distributive center. That 
enterprise, then, was well directed which early in its history made St. Louis at 
once a manufacturing center and a point of exchange. It is this factor that 
gives the city the stability and permanent prosperit}-, not nearly so conspicuous 
in more pretentious competitors. The arts and useful crafts are multiplying and 
making progress, as is more particularly set forth in another chapter. Raw 
material in abundance is at hand. Financial resources, perfected mechanism 
and skilled labor have been combined to extend the manufacturing industries of 
St. Louis, until she has come to be an exporting market of no mean repute ; her 
wares and goods now finding ready sale in all parts of the civilized world. 



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THE FU'lURE OF ST. LOUIS. 

(.jiaud as is the present of this principality of the great Mississippi Valley, 
it can but faintly type the future. With the improvements in river transporta- 
tion, now in satisfactory progress, completed, she will have thousands of miles 
of navigation, peculiarly her own waters, and to these may be added forty thou- 
sand miles more of connecting navigable rivers. With these waters running 
through an immense and fertile region, for which they furnish a thousand outlets; 
with railroads reaching to every part of the country and extending into Mexico; 
with a rapidly developing tide-water and trans-Atlantic commerce, who shall 
measure or approximate the future of St. Louis ! She is the comrnercial center 
and the natural market of seven hundred thousand square miles of territory, full 
of mineral and agricultural resources and capable of sustaining, in vigorous life, 
an hundred million people. Who shall essay to limit the aspirations of St. 
Louis for the commerce of the future ! 







TRADE AND C0MM:BRCE. 



HERE, as in all the great cities, the exchange system prevails in the trans- 
action of business upon an extensive scale. The vast chain of Cham- 
bers of Commerce, which direct and control, by uniform methods, the marts of 
the world, extends to St. Louis, and various representative trade bodies occupy 
large buildings, and are asr.'sted in their daily dealings by a system of tele- 
graphic intercommunication with all the markets of this country and Europe. 
The larger and more important of these commercial undertakings are here 
noted. 

THE MERCHANTS EXCHANGE. 

This organization, having the largest membership of any similar body in 
the country, save one, possesses a very interesting history. The first exchange 
formed in St. Louis, and a very primitive affair it was, sprang into existence in 
1836. It was called the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce, which name is yet 
preserved in the designation of the magnificent building occupied by the present 
body, and in the corporate title of the association that erected the edifice. The 
old Chamber of Commerce used an upper room for a time, and appears to have 
called this a Merchants' Exchange. In 1849 the millers, weary of buying wheat 
by sample on the levee and of " exposure to the weather," formed an exchange, 
which is claimed to have been the first convenience of the kind in the United 
States, for buying and selling such produce ; but two years later united with the 
general exchange conducted under that name and as the Chamber of 
Commerce. 

In 1856-7 a new exchange building was erected on Main street, and having 
cost about $65,000 was considered a grand one at that time. Five years later 
the great political excitement incident to war times and sharp conflict of opinion, 
produced a rupture of relations culminating in the organization of a " Union 
Merchant's Exchange," with a qualification of loyalty insisted upon; and this 
body grew so largely that in time it practically absorbed the other faction, and 
the appellation "Union" was continued up to 1875, when the formal title was 
changed to "The Merchants Exchange of St. Louis." 

In process of time a new building became necessary. The preliminary 
steps to that end were taken in 1871. In 1875 the substantial and striking 



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Structure fronting on Third street from Chestnut to Pine was erected, and has 
since been occupied. The system and management of this institution rank it 
with the best in America. Men of breadth and ability have directed it. The 
President of last year, Hon. D. R. Francis, was lately elected Mayor of the City. 
Secretary George H. Morgan has had the honor of unanimous re-election, year 
after year, for a long period. The statistics used in this work are chiefly com- 
piled from his comprehensive exhibit of the trade and commerce of St. Louis. 
The following are the officers of the Exchange for the year 1885: President, 
Henry C Haarstick ; Vice-Presidents, S. W. Cobb, D. P. Slattery ; Directors, 
1885, J. C. Ewald, D. H. Bartlett, Ellis Wainwright, J. Will Boyd, R. S. McCor- 
mick; Directors, 1885-6, D.R.Francis, Henry Sayers, Mathias Backer, C. A. 
Cox, Thomas Akin ; Secretary and Treasurer, Geo. H. Morgan; Assistants, D. 
R. Whitmore, Lovell W. Stebbins ; Caller. Jos. P. Carr; Door-keeper, James P- 
Newell. 

THE COTTON AND WOOL EXCHANGE. 

This body, like that just described, has largely contributed to the standing 
St. Louis enjoys in the world of commerce. The largest inland cotton market 
in the country, St. Louis has attained to that exalted rank through the enter- 
prise of the energetic members of the Cotton Exchange, and the exceptional fa- 
cihties for handling afforded in the extensive compress and warehousing system 
here in vogue. The Exchange has quite recently greatly enlarged its field of 
usefulness by combining with the rapidly growing wool interest, admitting the 
representatives of that industry to membership and applying the compress sys- 
tem to the handling of wool, as well as having perfected methods of official in- 
spection and grading of the staple, and auction sales of the same. Hence the 
organization, still officially designated by its corporate name as the Cotton Ex- 
change, is in trade circles recognized and known as the Cotton and Wool Ex- 
change, and the former independent organization of the wool dealers has 
ceased to exist as such. 

In 1873 the first steps were taken toward organizing the Cotton Exchange 
in a very primitive fashion; for it appears that only $25 a month was the rental 
of the third story room used, and $500 insurance was understood to cover the 
full value of the property of the Exchange. After the association had been in- 
corporated, in 1874, it entered upon a career of moderate prosperity, and began 
to develop the cotton trade of St. Louis. At the annual meeting in 1875 the 
present very efficient and popular secretary, C W. Simmons, was elected to fill 
the very responsible place whose duties he has so very acceptably discharged 
ever since. During the past ten years Mr. Simmons has watched over the in- 
terests confided to him, and has earned and received the hearty support and 
friendly respect of all brought into trade and personal relations with him. It 
was also determined at the same meeting to remove to more extensive quarters 
at Main and OHve streets. Here the Exchange remained until the handsome 
building at present occupied on Main and Walnut street was erected and form- 
ally dedicated with appropriate ceremony on May 4th, 1882. 



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From an association of meager membership, and occupying a small room 
eleven years ago, the Cotton Exchange has increased and risen to a most influ- 
ential organization numbering several hundred names, among whom will be 
found our many prominent citizens and representatives of the most sagacious 
handlers and manufacturers of the staple in the East and Europe. By the re- 
cently effected union with the wool interest, the membership and transactions 
have been greatly increased, and " King Cotton "and " Queen Wool " occupy one 
of the finest trade palaces on the continent. A glance at the exterior of the Ex- 
change will show that the city will lose nothing by a comparison with similar 
efforts, even on the part of the trade in cities whose main commercial import- 
ance is derived from cotton. 

The executive of the Exchange, President Jerome Hill, is one of the most 
energetic and successful of St. Louis business men, is a large cotton handler, 
and thoroughly devoted to the work ot advancing the interests of this market. 
He is ably seconded in his efforts by Secretary Simmons, whose statistical labors 
and commercial compilations are drawn upon elsewhere in this work, in exhibi- 
ting the development and extent of the cotton trade of St. Louis. The follow- 
ing comprises the roster of the officers of the Exchange for 1885 : Jerome Hill, 
President; A, A. Paton, Vice President; C.W.Simmons, Secretary and Treas- 
urer. Directors, M. C Humphrey, Wm. M. Senter, J. D. Goldman, A. E. Peters, 
R. F. Phillips, Geo, Taylor and W. F. Warner. 

THE ST. LOUIS BOARD OF TRADE. 

Organization of this body, which still preserves a corporate existence and 
annually elects officers, was effected in 1867, the opening address being made 
by the late Hon. Henry T. Blow. Action was taken at a subsequent meeting 
upon the report of a committee " appointed to consider a communication from 
the Birmingham, England, Chamber of Commerce, recommending the adoption 
of an international law," which appears to be about all that can be said of it. 
The present officers, who have been several times re-elected, are: Chauncey I. 
Filley, President ; Joseph A. Wherry, Vice-President ; C. L. Thompson, Secre- 
tary and Treasurer; E. C. Simmons, Joseph O'Neil, E. K. Holton, J. E. Shorb, 
John Cantwell, E. A. Hitchcock, N. C. Chapman, L M. Mason and S. H. Laf- 
lin, Directors. 

THE HIDE EXCHANGE. 

For many years the hide dealers of St. Louis were subjected to the incon- 
venience of seeking out supplies at such places as the same might be found, 
and if fortunate enough to discover hides to suit, then to bid upon the same, 
with about equal chances of securing the skins or failing in that purpose. This 
primitive method of doing business was unnecessarily wearisome and rarely sat- 
isfactory. 

Early in the present year it was determined to form an Exchange, and that 
object was satisfactorily carried into effect to the great advantage of the trade. 
The Exchange is located at 14 South Commercial Street, in the portion of the 



20 THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 

business district chiefly occupied by hide dealers, and already it has a large mem- 
bership and has accomplished much in persuasively demonstrating to shippers 
throughout the West and Southwest that St. Louis presents great advantage as 
a hide market. The system of grading adopted is conformable to the recom- 
mendations of the National Association of Tanners, Hide and Leather Dealers, and 
is much preferable to the ancient methods formerly employed. The present 
officers of the Exchange are : L. Frank, President ; L. Krieckhaus, Secretary ; 
and E. Hartmann, Treasurer. A quotation committee is appointed monthly to 
serve during that period, and the maximum prices of hides are thus regulated. 

THE MECHANICS EXCHANGE. 

So early as 1839, the mechanics and artisans of St. Louis urgtd the 
formation of an Exchange and an organization was effected out of which, ulti- 
mately, associated effort was secured. In 1852 a movement upon a larger 
scale was inaugurated and an Exchange formed. The body now existing, how- 
ever, was founded in 1856, and originally bore the name of " Mechanics and 
Manufacturers Exchange," but was not incorporated until 1875, when the cor- 
porate name became the Mechanics Exchange, the objects of which are offici- 
ally declared to be "the promotion of mechanical and industrial interests in the 
city of St. Louis ; to inculcate just and equitable principles of trade, to estab- 
lish and maintain uniformity in the commercial usages of said city, to acquire, 
preserve and disseminate valuable business information, and also to adjust, as 
far as practicable, controversies and misunderstandings arising between individ- 
uals engaged in the various industrial pursuits." 

The commodious office and rooms of the Exchange are at 9 North Seventh 
Street, and the membership is a very large one, comprehending several hundred 
of the leading builders, mechanics and artisans of the city, who exercise great 
influence and together form a prosperous body. The executive officers for the 
present year are : Daniel Evans, President ; Sam H. Hoffman, First Vice-Pres- 
ident ; Thos. P. McKelleget, Second Vice-President ; Wm. S. Stamps, Treasurer ; 
Richard Walsh, Secretary ; E. W. Creighton, Doorkeeper. Directors — P. Mul- 
cahy, Anthony Ittner, Henry Perkinson, Thos. F. Hayden, Frank P. Hunkins, 
Thos. Rich, James Duross, Joseph Methudy, F. C. P Tiedemann, Chas. W. Ho- 
gan, Wm. S. Simpson, Jos. L. Guedry. 

THE ST. LOUIS FURNITURE EXCHANGE. 

The object of this body, as officially defined, is to •' secure and promulgate 
among its members the best information attainable regarding the standing, hab- 
its and reliability of the various dealers to whom the goods of its members are 
likely to be sold, and thus not only protect the interest of its members, but also 
advance the interests of well-meaning and prudent dealers. It also aims to se- 
cure just and equitable rates of transportation and insurance." 

The association was organized in 1879, and has done much in the direction 
of promoting unity and harmony among those engaged in this important indus- 
try, and in generally fostering the interests of the trade which has assumed very 



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large dimensions here of late years, and in fact become one of the most exten- 
sive manufacturing industries in the entire West. The membership of the Ex- 
change, the rooms of which are at 900 North Broadway, is quite large and the 
present executive officers are: Jacob Kaiser, President; G. A. Wolff, Vice- 
President • A. H. Dreyer, Secretary; J. G. Koppelman, Treasurer. Executive 
Board-Geo. A. Rubelman, Chairman; M. J. Reilly, Secretary; Wm. Prufrock, 
Joseph Peters, Michael Heller. 

The Exchange has an official organ, a worthy and thrifty monthly publica- 
tion conducted by Mr. F. H. Burgess. 
THE ST. LOUIS REAL ESTATE AND STOCK EXCHANGE. 

In the centre of a business district chiefly occupied by real estate and finan- 
cial agents, architects and builders, is erected a spacious building, occupied as a 
Real Estate and Stock Exchange. The association was formed in 1877, and in 
18S2 the Exchange was incorporated. Its object is declared to be the main- 
taining of an institution where public and private sales of real estate, stocks and 
other property can be conducted; and that purpose has been carried out by 
holding a series of auction sales at various periods during the last few years, 
whereat, in the aggregate, several million dollars worth of property has changed 

hands. 

The Exchange further supplies a place of meering for its numerous members, 
and keeps on bulletin boards, open to public inspection, a record of business 
and res:ience property for rent or for sale in the city. It has thus served a very 
useful purpose, and is a prosperous association. The present executi^'e officers 
are: Leslie A. Moffett, President; James S. Farrar, Vice-President; F. L. 
Haydel, Secretary and Treasurer; Mark Priest, Assistant Secretary. Directors — 
Clias. Green, Theophile Papin, John Maguire and William C Wilson, together 
with the President and Vice-President. 



There are and have been other commercial associations and trade agencies, 
but the above form the principal ones entitled to rank as Exchanges. The 
Coal Exchange, so called, was a pool or combination formed by dealers, and 
does not now exist as an Exchange. 

BOARD OF UNDERAA^RITERS. 

This organization, as elsewhere, is a most serviceable one. The Companies 
having membership in the Board are : The Marine Insurance Company, and 
the Citizens, of St. Louis ; St. Paul Fire and Marine, of St. Paul, Minn. ; the 
Louisville Underwriters, of Louisville, Ky. ; Kenton Insurance Company, of 
Covino-ton, Ky.; Enterprise, of Cincinnati, O.; Boatmen's Fire and Marine, of 
Pittsburgh, Pa.; Phoenix, of Brooklin, N. Y.: Orient Mutual and the Great West- 
em, of New York City ; Commercial, of San Francisco, Cal.; Insurance Co:n- 
pany of North America, Philadelphia, Pa.; and the Germania, of New Orieans. 
The Board, which holds its annual election in December, is at present 
officered as follows : President, Howard A. Blossom ; Vice-President, John P. 



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THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 



Harrison ; Secretai7, Adjuster and Agent, James Bernard ; Inspector of Hulls, 
Silas Adkins. In St. Louis the Board maintains a well disciplined Salvage Corps, 
which works in connection with the City Fire Department, and is very effective 
in protecting property at conflagrations. 




TRANSPORTATION. 



THE extension ofthe St Louis railroad systems to Mexico, perfected last 
year, and the improvements and increased mileage of Northwestern and 
Southwestern Hues, opening up new tributary points in Iowa, Arkansas, Texas 
and other States, together with the further development of the tide-water and 
export trade, have drawn the attention of the commercial world to the superior 
transportation facilities of this trade center, and to its possession of such advan- 
tages of communication, by rail and river, with all points, as are equalled by 
but one other city on the continent. 

THE RAILWAY SYSTEM. 
A glance at the map will show that our railroads, like arteries, converge and 
diverge in every direction from this great national highway and only direct route 
between the Atlaaitic and the Pacific. In short, the trunk lines centering here 
and their direct connections, extending, as has been well said by a distinguished 
writer on railroad topics, "to all points of the compass, push out towards the 
ocean, pierces the coal regions in every direction, reaches eastward to the great 
seaports of the nation, drains the rich and fertile agricultural counties of our 
own State, and extends westward toward the Rocky Mountains and the golden 
regions beyond. Soon, too, by the further extension of roads reaching into 
Mexico, and their connections by gulf, sea and isthmus, closer transportation re- 
lations will be established with the states of Central and South America." The 
raikoads centering here are the following trunk hues : 

THE MISSOURI PACIFIC. 

This road, with its leased and operated Hues, seven in all, comprises the 
greatest system centering in St. Louis, and one of the greatest systems under 
one management in the whole country. Its mileage, including siding, is 6,793 
miles. The Missouri Pacific forms a part of the Gould system, and it is one of 
the main thoroughfares connecting St. Louis with Kansas, Texas, Colorado, 
New Mexico and all Western and Southeastern States. A very large freight 
and passenger business is done over this route. 

WABASH, ST. LOUIS AND PACIFIC. 

The Wabash, as it is popularly termed, comprises an extensive system also 
under the Gould control. At one time twenty-one distinct lines were merged 

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into this system, which besides its routes eastward, has also valuable Hues west 
of the Mississippi, so that direct communication is afforded with such Eastern, 
Northwestern and Western markets as Toledo, Detroit, Indianapolis, Chicago^ 
Quincy, Peoria, Kansas City, Omaha and Council Bluffs. These roads and 
branches run through the richest agricultural regions of the United States, The 
mileage in operation, under the four divisions of the line, aggregate 3,507 miles. 
For some time the Wabash has been somewhat embarrassed financially, and is 
operated under the direction of receivers appointed by the Federal Courts, but 
General Manager A. A. Talmage, who has its practical management, has so re- 
duced expenses and lopped off extravagances, that the company is likely again to 
resume its place as pecuniarily profitable ; and it has always been successful in 
acquiring patronage. The general offices are located in St Louis. The Wa- 
bash also has a belt line around the city and its environs. 

THB CHICAGO AND ALTON. 

This air line between St. Louis and Chicago has always been prosperous, 
so far as the immense fi-eight traffic of the main line is concerned, and its Mis- 
souri division connecting St Louis and Chicago with Kansas City has supplied 
large additional shipping facilities and notably increased its freight tonnage 
West and Southwest during the last few years. The management of the Chica- 
go and Alton Railroad is one of the most successful and energetic in the country, 
and its upwards of a thousand miles of track is laid with steel rails, mostly 
within the last year or two. 

THE VANDALIA LINK. 

This route fonns a part of what, in the days of the great Pennsylvania 
railway magnate, was popularly called the " Tom Scott System," and is now the 
popular designation of the through line from St. Louis to Philadelphia and New 
York, composed of the Vandalia Line, Pan-Handle and Pennsylvania Railroad, 
forming the most direct route between the West and the East This line is prac- 
tically under one management and runs in a direct line from East to West 
through the States of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, pas- 
sing through the capitols of the four last menrioned. It is the favorite route for 
fast time shipments to the Atlantic sea-board, and exporters make choice of it 
when desirous of reaching the Liverpool market earlier than is at present possi- 
ble by the river and Southern route to LiverpooL 

THE OHIO AND MISSISSIPPL 

This was the pioneer railroad to connect St Louis and the East, being 
completed in 1857. It is a direct route to Cincinnati and thence East over the 
Baltimore & Ohio Railway. The O. & M. has a branch running to Louisville, 
Ky., via North Vernon. Ind., another, the Springfield division, crossing the main 
line at Flora, IlL, and running to Beardstown on the Illinois river. The road 
has at all times a large freight tonnage, and is an especially valuable outlet to 
St. Louis m reaching local and tributary points in Southern Illinois and 
Indiana. 



26 THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 

THE ST. LOUIS AND SAN FRANCISCO. 

Popularly called the " Frisco Line," this route is one of the most important 
to St. Louis, placing it in direct relations with wealthy mineral sections, and 
making this road the conveyance for the millions of pounds of lead and zinc 
mined and smelted for the market. The general offices of the road are in St. 
Louis. The line is being extended across Western Kansas and through the 
Indian Territory to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where it effects a junction with 
the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad. The " Frisco " has also a large freight patron- 
age both inward and outward. 

THE INDIANAPOLIS AND ST. LOUIS. 

This route, usually called the " Bee Line," on account of its directness, is 
a successful competitor for a great deal of east-bound freight, its main line run- 
ning from both St. Louis and Cincinnati to Cleveland, Ohio, where it connects 
with the Like Shore and New York Central systems, via Albany to New York. 

THE CHICAGO, BURLINGTON AND QUINCY. 

To the development of the Northwestern trade, for which St. Louis is an 
active competitor with Chicago, this route has chiefly contributed. Its main 
line and several branches stretch out through Illinois, Iowa and Minnesota, and 
it has secured right of way and is extending still further Northwest, with the 
ultimate object of tapping the Northern Pacific, securing control of the traffic 
with Oregon, and opening up to St. Louis a direct outlet to the Northern Pacific 
States and Territories. The freight traffic on this route is very extensive. 

THE ST. LOUIS, KEOKUK AND NORTHWESTERN. 

This line is s, somewhat newer one, and in its operation and management 
not antagonistic to the C, B. & Q. It is a direct line to Hannibal, Quincy and 
Keokuk, and enters St. Louis over the track of the Wabash from St. Peters. 
Its route is on the Missouri side of the river, and it carries considerable out- 
Wkrd-bound freight. 

THE CAIRO SHORT LINE AUD ILLINOIS CENTRAL. 

The corporate name of the " Cairo Short Line" is the St. Louis, Alton and 
Terre Haute Railroad, and the nominal organization of the latter is still main- 
tained. The Short Line is operated from Du Quoin, Illinois, in connection with 
the Illinois Central to Cairo, and thence connects with the latter direct route to 
New Orleans, on the east bank of the Mississippi. By this route most of the 
Southern freight received and shipped by rail is sent, and the tonnage is 
quite .large. 

THE ST. LOUIS AND CAIRO NARROW GAUGE. 

This direct route to Cairo, besides doing a very large local business, is a 
popular Southern outlet for freight traffic, and for a time was connected with the 
Texas and St. Louis Narrow Gauge, bringing in much cotton from the South. 



THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 2^ 

THE ST. LOUIS, IRON MOUNTAIN AND SOUTHERN. 

This road, with a mileage of over a thousand miles in all, and a consolida- 
tion of four distinct lines, is really comprehended in the Missouri Pacific system 
mentioned at the outset of this exhibit of St. Louis rail facilities, and has been 
operated under the same control smce 1881, when Jay Gould and the New 
York syndicate obtained a majority of the stock, and consolidated the road with 
the Missouri Pacific. The Iron Mountain divides at Bismarck, Mo., one hne 
running south, and by connections reaching the principal Southern points, the 
other running through Arkansas and Texas, and at Texarkana connecting with 
the Texas Pacific, operated in the same interest, which, in turn, connects with 
the Southern Pacific to California, and opens to St. Louis direct rail connections 
with Mexico. The freight traffic of the Iron Mountain route is profitable. 

LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE. 

The Louisville and Nashville Railroad is also a very extensive system, run- 
ning by way of Evansville, Ind., through to Nashville, Tenn., and thence 
throughout the entire Southeast, including, with its leased lines and connections, 
the States of Florida, Georgia,, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia 
and the Carolinas. The line between St. Louis and Louisville is the shortest 
and most direct, and the freight tonnage is large and constantly increasing. 

THE TEXAS AND ST. LOUIS. 

This " Cotton Belt " route is pre-eminently a St. Louis line, and was prac- 
tically created and put into operation by its President, Col. J. W. Paramore, of 
this city, who had long been among the foremost in the development of the 
cotton interest here, in behalf of which the road was really constructed. From 
St. Louis southwest, the road runs through Arkansas and Texas, presenting two 
different routes to Mexico. This end of the Hne is really at Birds' Point, oppo- 
site Cairo, and inward freight comes over the Cairo Short Line. When extended 
to Eagle Pass, in Texas, the " Cotton Belt" route, which is a narrow gauge line, 
will directly connect with the Huntington system of Mexican railways, and 
another part of the line will be extended to connect with the system of narrow 
gauge railways in Mexico. The Texas and St. Louis, so far extended, is over 
one thousand miles long. All the great rivers it crosses -serve as feeders. From 
every such point the country produce, particularly cotton, is shipped to St. Louis. 
The freight business done by the road has been very large, but extraordinary 
overflows, particularly while some of the bridges were in course of construction, 
and disastrous floods, so increased expenses beyond earnings that the company 
became financially embarrassed, and the road went into the hands of a receiver, 
with probability, at this writing, of sale under foreclosure at an early day. What 
interest may secure the road eventually it is impossible now to conjecture, but 
in any event, the " Cotton Belt" route will continue one of the most important 
aids to St. Louis commerce 



28 THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 

THE TOLEDO, CINCINNATI AND ST. LOUIS. 

Popularly called the "Nickel-Plate" line, this narrow gauge road is the 
largest in the country east of the Mississippi. Its extension to St. Louis is a 
comparatively recent event, but the route promises to prove another very 
desirable outlet to the Lakes, and already has secured a liberal patronage 
of freight. 

THE ILLINOIS AND ST. LOUIS RAILROAD. 

The Illinois and St. Louis Railroad, though only about fifteen miles long in 
its main Hne, is a very important factor in the business of St. Louis. It is one 
of the oldest railroad companies in Illinois, and, running to and somewhat 
beyond Belleville, crosses the principal coal fields in this part of the country. 
The road supplies St. Louis with a very large portion of its coal consumption, 
the figures annually reaching many millions of bushels. In addition to its main 
line, this road controls and operates, under the same management, the Venice 
and Carondelet Belt Line, which encircles the whole of the railroad district of 
which East St. Louis is the center, and taps every line that comes here from the 
East. The company also own and operate the ferry and car transfer service 
across the river, and thus command a large and rapidly growing business. 

The railway system of St. Louis, also includes the bridge and tunnel lines, 
and several local and suburban roads not enumerated above, in the nearly twenty 
thousand miles centering here ; but from the foregoing it will be clearly per- 
ceived that the trunk lines named form a very comprehensive system, reaching 
to the East, Northeast, Southeast, South, West, Northwest and North ; reaching 
the great seaports of the Atlantic coast with a singular directness and force; lay- 
ing hold on the great lakes as strongly. It also reaches into and covers the 
West with a wonderful grasp, and lays a similar broad hand on the South. There 
are also projected other lines, opening up new avenues of trade. A new Western 
line is among the enterprises of this character. It is to be called the St. Louis, 
Kansas City and Colorado Railroad. This proposed line runs along the south- 
ern edge of Kansas from the extreme southwestern corner of the State, turning 
north 10 Paola, and traversing some of the best counties in the State. The 
route through Missouri has not been fully determined upon as yet. 

THE RIVER TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM. 

The value of waterways to commerce, and especially the value of the 
"Father of Waters" and his navigable tributaries, has never admitted of doubt; 
and when the genius of Captain James B. Eads accomplished the deepening of 
the channel at the mouth of the Mississippi, and thus connected river and tide- 
water navigation, it was felt that a great step had been taken in the direction of 
soiving the question of cheap transportation. The government was induced to 
undertake, on a larger scale, the improvement of western waters, and that 
desirable work is still in progress. 

The location of St. Louis with respect to the vast extent of country em- 
braced within the geographical limits of the Mississippi Valley, gives her 



THE INDUSTRIES OF ST, LOUIS. 2g 

peculiar commercial interest in river transportation. This natural avenue of 
travel affords profitable and direct trade communication with ten States on the 
Mississippi alone, and when the navigable tributaries are considered in the same 
connection, it is seen that St. Louis reaches, through water routes, eighteen of 
the States of the Union and two Territories ; not only the border counties, but 
the interior of this vast section as well, stretching from the 46th degree of north 
latitude to the 29th degree, and from the ist degree to the 2 2d longitude west 
from Washington, affording fully eighteen thousand miles of internal navigation, 
and embracing an area of 1,052,000 square miles of territory. 

So much for the relation of the Mississippi to the domestic commerce of 
St. Louis. But it must be remembered that so early as 1883, this city took 
rank as the third in the Union in exporting corn, being barely exceeded by Bal- 
timore and far distancing Boston and Philadelphia ; in fact being only largely 
exceeded in export of this cereal by New York City. The same relative propor- 
tion was maintained last year, and during the single month of January, 1885, 
nearly one million busheL of corn were exported from St. Louis to Europe, via 
the Mississippi river in barges, and thence by outward-bound vessels. The all- 
water route to Liverpool, as against the movement eastward by rail via Atlantic 
cities, has steadily grown in favor of St. Louis exporters, and under this impetus 
the barge and tow system has greatly developed of late years, as has also the 
freight tonnage of the packet lines and other steamers doing business on the 
Mississippi and its tributaries. 

The principal Hues running out of St, Louis, are : the New Orleans 
♦' Anchor " line, a consolidation of the St. Louis and Vicksburg and the St. 
Louis and New Orleans Anchor lines, which was effected in 1883 ; the St. Louis 
and Mississippi Valley Transportation Company (steamers and barges), from St. 
Louis to New Orleans and intermediate points; the St. Louis and St. Paul 
Packet Co.; the " Diamond Jo " hne of packets between St. Louis and St. Paul ; 
the St. Louis and Clarksville Packet Company ; the St. Louis and Kansas City 
♦' Electric " Packet line ; the Illinois River or " Eagle " Packet Co.; and the St. 
Louis, Cairo, Paducah and Tennessee Packet Line to Cincinnati, Pittsburg and 
points on the upper Ohio river. 

EXPORTS AND IMPORTS. 

The direct importations of St. Louis from foreign countries have largely 
increased in recent years. In 1871, when St. Louis was made a port of entry, 
she had but two direct importers ; now there are said to be nearly 400 of them. 
The total foreign value of her imports in 1884 (including packages in bond), 
was $4,907,973, on which the entire duties would amount to $1,818,289.40. 
The principal commodities brought in direct, were china and earthenware, val- 
ued abroad at $110,152; glassware, at $219,077; manufactures of cotton, 
$217,634; of linen, $142,430; of wool, $110,904; fire arms, $119,544; tin 
plate, $214,030; tobacco and cigars, $128,307 ; woolen dress goods, $137,636. 
Besides these, merchandise as follows was imported direct : Anvils, ale and 
beer, books and printed matter, bricks and tiles, brushes, chemicals, cutlery, 



30 THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 

diamonds ($71,275 worth), druggists' sundries, files, hops, iron in bars, rails and 
sheets, jewelers' articles, leather, manufactured metals, paper and silk, musical 
instruments, needles, nuts and fruits, paintings, philosophical instruments, seeds, 
soda ash and caustic, steel in rails and bars, sugar, wines and spirits, window- 
glass, etc. 

THE GRAIN TRADE. 

St. Louis being the geographical center of the most fertile crop-growing 
section in the United States, her grain trade is of mammoth proportions. That 
is to say her dealings in the actual, tangible cereal ; for speculative transactions, 
such as eption buying and selling, and dealing in futures — methods so exten- 
sively employed in the greatest competing market, Chicago — though increasing 
the nominal volume of trade, do not actually add a single bushel to the millions 
handled every season. 

With unexcelled terminal facilities, with elevator and warehouse capacity of 
the largest, St. Louis makes little less than a marvelous exhibit in the extent of 
her trade in grain. With her twelve elevators and warehouses, having a storag' 
capacity now increased to 12,000,000 bushels in bulk, and nearly half a millioi 
of sacks, she is amply well prepared to handle, as in fact she does, the bulk of 
the wheat crop of the States of Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois. Mis- 
souri, Kansas and Nebraska, as well as to care for the productions of the great 
com belt, comprising Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska, 
and of the Northwestern oat-growing States. 

Regarding the grain trade as a whole, during 1884, the Merchants' 
Exchange report makes a very favorable showing, the total receipts, including 
flour reduced to wheat figures, being 52,776,832 bushels, as against 51,983,494 
bushels the previous year. The receipts of grain (excluding flour) for the past 
three years compare as follows : 

RECEIPTS OF GRAIN FOR THREE YEARS. 

1884. 1S83. 1882. 

Wheat 16,368,809 15,000,704 20,774,987 

Com.._ - 19,607,325 20,001,450 14,541,555 

Oats 7.036,951 6,452,757 8,138,516 

Rye _- - 585.218 532,270 403-707 

Barley - 2,625,841 2,860,798 1,818,968 

Total bushels — 46,224,144 44,847,979 45>677.733 

The receipts for the first six months of 1885, aggregated 22,945,612 bushels, 
thus showing a gratifying increase over the figures for a corresponding period 
last year. Considering that very little of the new wheat crop was marketed so early 
as July I St, there is prospect that the aggregate transactions will largely exceed 
those of 1884, notwithstanding the short crop this year. 

As usual, the bulk of receipts comes from the West, the States east of the 
Mississippi contributing only a small proportion. T-o be more exact, it may be 
staled that the precise sources of supply in 1884-5, were : The West by rail 
and Missouri river ; the South by rail from west of the Mississippi river ; the 



THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 3 1 



South by Mississippi river boats ; the South by rail from east of the Mississippi ; 
the East by rail and by IlHnois river ; the North by rail and river, and a small 
portion overland by wagons from suburban districts. 

As showing the position occupied by St. Louis as a primary market for the 
grain of the valley, it may be stated that in 1884 its aggregate receipts exceeded 
those of every other grain market except Chicago ; and while the receipts of 
Chicago in 1884, as compared with 1883, show a loss of 6,000,000 bushels, St. 
Louis gained nearly 2,000,000, Kansas City, Cincinnati and Milwaukee being 
the only other principal markets showing like increase. 

WHEAT HANDLED HERE. 

The wheat crop of the United States for 1884 was the largest ever har- 
vested, amounting to 512,763,900 bushels. In the States tributary to this 
market, which yield the finest quality of wheat grown in the world, the total pro- 
duction was greater than in 1883, but in some of the States, notably in Illinois 
and Kentucky, less than 1882. In Missouri the yield showed a large increase. 
The quality of that received in this market was excellent, a very large prof)ortion 
inspecting No. 2. The shipments of the year were 7,177,982 bushels, of which 
70,486 bushels went to Europe direct via Atlantic cities, and 1,318,688 bushels 
were exported via New Orleans. Shipments eastward by rail were 5,512,706 
bushels, the bulk of which went to Eastern seaboard cities. The amount con- 
sumed by city mills was 8,497,461 barrels, producing 1,960,737 barrels of flour. 
The shipments this year up to July ist aggregated 1,416,728 bushels, about one- 
fourth of the supply received during that period. 

TRANSACTIONS IN CORN. 

The corn crop last year aggregated 1,795,528,432 bushels, the largest ever 
grown in quantity, though not the largest in yield per acre. But the amount of 
merchantable corn, suitable for shipment, that reached the leading grain centers, 
was considerably reduced, St. Louis receiving neariy her usual quota, however. 
The shipments from this market aggregated 16,533,259 bushels, of which 1,773,- 
803 bushels went direct to Europe via the Atlantic seaboard, and 4,496,785 
bushels were exported via New Orieans. Shipments eastward to local points 
and to the seaboard for a market were 7,862,699 bushels, and 1,760,757 went 
South for consumption. The city mills took 2,934,304 bushels for manufacture 
into meal and hominy, and the city consumption was 800,340 bushels for feed. 
The receipts of the crop of 1884, marketed thus far this year (14,560,951 
bushels), and the favorable reports of the new crop, indicate an excess for 1885 
over any previous year, and with the large demand for export via the water 
route, St. Louis will doubtless command a larger percentage of the crop than 
ever before. 

BARLEY, A BREWERS' SUPPLY. 

St. Louis is a large market for barley, although it is not an extensive crop in 
the Valley States ; but the consumptive demand of the brewing interest, more 
fully set forth in a subsequent chapter on the manufacturing industries of the 



32 THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 

city, attracts the staple to this market so largely that the receipts last year 
reached 2,625,841 bushels, nearly all of which was taken by resident brewers 
and malsters, for the manufacture of beer. During the first six months of 1885, 
the receipts reached 838,464 bushels, an increase of five per cent, as compared 
with the corresponding period of 1884. 

OATS AND RYE.' 

The oat crop of the Union last year exceeded .nat Of any other produc- 
tive season, and St. Louis received 7,036,951 bushels, a considerable increase 
over the previous year. Of the receipts, 3,592,296 bushels came from the West, 
and 2,034,345 bushels from the North. Of the shipments, the bulk went to the 
South, and 4,043,653 bushels, more than fifty per cent, of the receipts, were 
taken for home consumption. The receipts this year, up to July ist, aggregate 
3,207,745 bushels. 

The receipts of rye also exceeded those of the previous year, and there was 
a good export demand in this market, 344,864 bushels being shipped to Europe 
via the jetties, and nearly as much eastward. The receipts for the first six 
months of 1885 show an increase of nearly 100 per cent. 

SHIPMENTS OF GRAIN. 

Having noted fully the receipts of grain in this inarket in 1884, and the 
sources of supply, the following table exhibiting the shipments and the direction 
thereof during the same season will be of interest : 

Wheat. 

TO 

Bushels 

Enrope direct by rail via Atlantic cities 70)4S6 

Europe direct via New Orleans, by river 1,31 3,683 

The East by rail and Illinois and Ohio rivers 5>Si2,7o6 

The West by rail and Missouri river 655 

The South by rail 202,427 

The South by river .2,432 

The North by rail and river 70.5SS 

Total Shipm<nts 7,177,982 16,533,259 3.082,360 700,526 169,781 

The present year, judged by the figures for the first six months, will show 
a large increase in shipments, by barges, via the river and the jetties, to Europe, 
and in anticipation of such movements, the capacity of the barge line for trans- 
portation of grain in bulk has been increased to 3,000,000 bushels a month, the 
better to utilize the river and tide-water route for supplying the cereals and other 
commodities to the markets of the old world. 

THE COTTON AND WOOL TRADE. 

The cotton year ends in September. Last year proved somewhat of a dis- 
appointment to nearly all markets interested in this important staple ; and while 
St. Louis maintained her standing as the largest interior cotton market in the 
country, she fell somewhat behind in her receipts, though less so proportionately 
than other marts. But the outlook for the future is brighter, and from all crop 
reports received thus far by the Cotton Exchange, 1885 promises to prove a 
prosperous year to that interest. 



Com. 


Oats 


Rye. 


fiarley. 


Bushels 


Bushels 


Bushels 


Bushels 


1.773.803 









4 496,785 




344,864 




7,862,699 


«96.5.^» 


290,691 


102,461 


2.957 


>9."S9 


89 


a5,66i 


1,760,757 


739.588 


60,124 


39.793 


601,722 


2,124,146 


3.<^3S 


1,270 


34.S36 


2.935 


1,120 


• 596 



THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 33 



Regarding this prospect, the Cotton Exchange's report says : " Each year 
adds increased facilities for rapid and cheap freights in cotton ; with our great 
railway systems, East, West, North and South, and our regulator of commerce, 
the Mississippi and tributaries, we claim there is no American market so advan- 
tageously located as St. Louis. Factors have made such arrangements with 
their consignors in the country as will insure, in connection with the bountiful 
crop promised in the territory belonging to St. Louis, a large increase in receipts 
during the coming year. They are also in a position to be liberal in their ad- 
vances, and can and do offer their customers supplies of all kinds at most rea- 
sonable figures." 

St. Louis' facilities for handling the staple are admitted to be unequalled, 
and have largely aided in the development of the cotton trade. Cotton is here 
received and shipped without coming into contact with mud or water, in fifteen 
immense warehouses, protected in every way from the elements. Ten large and 
powerful compresses, with a capacity for compressing 8,000 bales per day, stand 
ready to embrace the staple. These warehouses and compresses are located 
along the railways, so that cars can discharge their loads directly into them, and 
also, after undergoing compressing, be again reshipped, thus doing away with 
drayage, usually an expensive item. Buyers are located here from every quar- 
ter where cotton is required, and the city is well known as a favorite market, 
which is further attested by the fact that the stock remaining on hand at the close 
of each season is so small. The St. Louis Fair Association, in connection with 
the Cotton Exchange, offer premiums on cotton from competing States every 
year. Of the shipments last year, 122,197 bales went direct to Europe via Atlantic 
sea-board, 157,938 bales to eastern mills, and 8,576 bales to Canada. 

COMPRESSING AND WAREHOUSING WOOL. 

Although St. Louis has always been a large distributing point for wool, it is 
now in a fair way to become one of the leading markets of the country. The 
hearty co-operation of the Cotton Exchange in a movement to develop the wool 
trade and the devising of an official system for grading, warehousing and com- 
pressing wool, has given an impetus to this important industry, and the union of 
"King Cotton" and "Queen Wool" seems likely to advantage both lines. 
The shipments of wool from St. Louis last year aggregated 17,665,858 ])Ounds, 
and the receipts several million pounds more, but the movement thus far in 
1885 gives promise of aggregating at least 30,000,000 pounds. The first six 
months' receipts this year exceeded last year's total receipts by over 1,000,000 
pounds. The National Wool Growers' Convention, in session at the Cotton and 
Wool Exchange last May, approved the plans to promote the industry in this 
market, and predicted the ultimate transfer of the bulk of the Eastern trade in 
this staple to St. Louis. 

THE LIVE STOCK TRADE. 

This interest in St. Louis is a very large one, and is constantly expanding. 
Its development last year — a season of business depression everywhere — to a 
point beyond the figures of previous seasons, was a gratifying exhibit for those 



34 THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 

engaged in it. Comparing the past two years it would appear that the receipts 
of cattle increased from 405,090 in 1883 to 450717 in 1884, and that 1,474,- 
475 hogs were last year received as against 1,151,785 the previous season. 

St. Louis has superior facihties — more particularly described in a subse- 
quent chapter of this work — for the economical handling of stock at the Nat- 
ional and the Union Stock Yards. 

The buyers at these extensive yards represent nearly every State east of the 
Mississippi river, reaching north to Michigan and Canada. The cattle trade for 
the present year promises large results. The trade in the past few years has 
been handicapped on account of the absence of the dressed-beef interest, but 
that factor has now been supplied, and dressed carcasses of cattle, slaughtered 
at the National Yards, East St. Louis, are now promptly forwarded in refrigera- 
tor cars and sold at the leading eastern markets. 

The increase in the receipts of hogs was partly due to the large demand by 
packers, St. Louis being third in the list of principal packing points in the 
country. Last year's business, as shown by the shipment of product, was 193,- 
875,479 pounds, including barreled pork, hams, meats and lard, of which 160,- 
776,501 pounds went to the South and 28,439,666 pounds eastward. The ship- 
ments of hogs reached nearly 700,000 head, about half the product going to 
the New York Market. 

HORSES AND MULES. 

St. Louis continues to be the leading horse and mule market in the United 
States, and foreign governments, as well as our own, make their principal pur- 
chases of mules here. So that while the demands, from the southern planta- 
tions and the western plains, for these hardy animals continues large, the ex- 
port demand is also constantly increasing, experience having clearly demon- 
strated, abroad as well as at home, that the American mule is especially adapted 
to army draft service. 

Yet, while the attainable statistics show a horse and mule trade of about 
$10,000,000 annually, it is doubtful if even that large figure represents more 
than two-thirds of the aggregate transactions in this market, for the reason that 
no record is kept of the large number of animals arriving otherwise than by rail 
or river, for many are driven direct to the stables from the vicinage. The firms 
engaged in this line, who are noted elsewhere in this work, transact a large share 
of the business in this market and are prominent in the exportation of mules. 

THE HIDE AND LEATHER TRADE. 

In all parts of the country the hide and leather industries have felt the ef- 
fect of business depression. Over-production by the tanneries and unusually 
low prices for the manufactured products, as compared with the ruling prices for 
hides, led to a temporary suspension or curtailment of production. But, as the 
result of various trade conferences, more systematic methods of business were 
introduced, and the industry now appears to have entered upon a new era of 
prospeiity. 

St. Louis has always been regarded as a preferred market for a superior 



THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 35 



grade of hides, and this reputation has been achieved mainly by the quality of 
goods brought from Colorado and Texas, which make the best class of sole- 
leather, as well as by the persistent efforts of the dealers in educating the St. 
Louis butchers up to the proper methods in skinning the beeves slaughtered 
here. The importation of Texas hides — which rank in quality next to the South 
American — in refrigerating cars to this market this season, is also proving a suc- 
cessful experiment, and through the efforts of a conference held here between 
the leather dealers and the cattle breeders, the excessive branding of cattle on 
the plains, so ruinous to hides, is to be stopped. The receipts of leather in this 
market last year were 45,346 rolls, and of hides about 20,000,000 pounds in all; 
the shipments of the latter reached a higher figure because they included the 
balance of the stock of the previous year. About fifty thousand dollars worth 
of foreign leather was imported. From the present outlook the business of this 
year will largely exceed these figures. 

THE HARDWARE TRADE. 

In no line ol business in St. Louis is more enterprise displayed than in the 
hardware trade. Conducted by men of untiring energy and ample resources, 
the business has been extended as far east as Ohio, north to Minnesota, west 
to the Pacific coast, and south into Mexico. The aim seems to have been to 
constantly acquire new territory, until now more than half the United States re- 
ceives hardware supplies from this market. 

From the time when Henry Shaw, of " Shaw's Garden " celebrity, estab- 
lished the first hardware house in St. Louis, more than fifty years ago, the busi- 
ness has continued to develop, until now two of the larger establishments alone 
occupy over four acres of ware-room each, and one of them sells more nails 
than any two hardware houses in America. Including manufacturers, jobbers, 
importers and dealers in the heavier wares only, and the numerous retailers, 
there are about seventy houses engaged in the hardware line in St. Louis, and 
the aggregate sales yearly exceed $15,000,000. For the amount of business- 
done the hardware men utilize more capital than any other class, and the re- 
sources constantly employed in this line here aggregate over $3,000,000. The 
energetic operations of St. Louis merchants have revolutionized the entire sys- 
tem of business. They were the first to introduce the system of publishing fine 
illustrated catalogues, and they have carried this feature to such an extent that 
their catalogues, as published to-day, are thorough encyclopaedias of all that is 
useful or necessary in the prosecution of the mechanical and domestic arts. 
And in the way of sending out commercial travelers, there is probably more 
effort made and larger expenses encountered by the St. Louis hardware men 
than byany other line of business in this or any other city in the United States. 

THE GROCERY TRADE. 

In behalf of this vast interest, affecting every household, it is urged by those 
who have given most thought to the anomalous condition of its affairs, that while 
the trade has more than doubled in ten years the actual profits are not any 
larger than they were ten years ago. This singular state of affairs, in which all 



36 THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 

the advantage of increased business is given away to the country merchant and 
consumer, is said to be wholly due to excessive competition between the leading 
distributive centers in this line of trade ; and here, as elsewhere, the larger im- 
porting houses with most abundant ready capital are absorbing the smaller. 
The aggregate sales in this market last year were estimated as between $40,000,- 
000 and $45,000,000. The territory supplied by St. Louis includes Missouri, 
Kansas, Arkansas, Texas, Indian Territory and New Mexico, where the St. 
Louis dealers have no rivals except as to Southern Texas ; there, however, Gal- 
veston and New Orleans still hold a portion of the business which used to be ex- 
clusively their own. This city also shares the business of Mississippi, Alabama 
and Western Georgia with New Orleans and Mobile, and so far west as Arizona 
it has wrested part of the trade from San Francisco. In Iowa, Nebraska, Colo- 
rado and Minnesota there is some trade reaching St. Louis, though those points 
are " tributary " to Chicago. 

Commenting upon last year's business in»this line, the Merchants Exchange 
annual report says that, considering the depressed business of the year, the whole- 
sale grocery business held up remarkably well. The volume was doubtless fully 
equal to that of 1883, and in some articles there was a notable increase. In sug- 
ars the receipts equaled 118,484,220 pounds against 115,911,350 pounds the 
previous year. Included in the receipts were 190,990 bags, of which 185,947 bags 
were Sandwich Island sugar, received by rail from San Francisco. Considering the 
fact that the Belcher refinery was not in operation during the later months of the 
year, the shipments of sugar were regarded as satisfactory. In molasses the vol- 
ume of trade was somewhat less, while in coffee the receipts increased from 
205,573 bags in 1883 to 270,229 bags in 1884. The amount of tea handled was 
some twenty per cent, greater than the previous year. It is unquestionably the 
fact that in the South and Southwest the wholesale grocery business of St. Louis 
is making steady progress, while in other directions there is no reason to think 
there has been any loss. About the beginning of 1885 a marked change was 
apparent, and the tendency now seems towards higher prices. St. Louis con- 
tinues the greatest inland market for coffee in the country, and probably of the 
world. The regular annual sales here exceed those of Chicago, Cincinnati and 
New Orleans by at least twenty-five per cent., and the business is constantly on 
the increase, the demand being mostly for Rio brands for consumption in the 
South and Southwest. Subsidiary to the grocery trade proper, the manufacture 
of vinegar, baking-powders, soap and preparations for household use, and the 
sundries of the retail stores, is extensively carried on in St. Louis. 

THE DRY GOODS TRADE. 

With a history extending over three-quarters of a century, the dry goods 
trade in St. Louis has grown from the smallest possible beginning to vast pro- 
jiortions, as is more fully exhibited in the notices descriptive of leading houses 
in that line, appearing in another part of this volume. Through this expansion 
the city is enabled to offer to buyers a market surpassed by none in the country 
for variety, extent and cheapness. 



THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 



37 



It is estimated by the president of one of the largest corporations doing 
business here in this line, that the amount of capital invested in the dry goods 
trade in St. Louis is fully $15,000,000, and that the amount of business annually 
done approximates $50,000,000. It has been especially noticeable within the 
last few years that many of the largest country dealers in the Southwest, West 
and Northwest who used to buy almost exclusively in New York now come to 
St. Louis. The reason for this is two-fold : First, they can obtain here as large 
and complete an assortment to choose from as they can in the East ; and, sec- 
ond, they find they can make their purchases here with as great, and frequently 
at greater advantage, as to cost than elsewhere. The cause of this latter state 
of affairs is found in the fact that many of the most desirable brands and styles 
of heavy cotton goods are now manufactered in the South and Southwest, and 
these manufacturers consign their goods for sale here, with all freight charges 
paid. Thus the buyers who used to have to pay freight charges all the way 
from New York, can now buy them almost at their doors free of charges, and 
this offers such a marked advantage that it pays them better to buy here undtr 
the new conditions. The twelve exclusively wholesale houses here import foi- 
eign goods direct. There are also seven jobbing and dry goods commission 
houses, as well as one wholesale and retail house — the largest of its kind in 
America — so that there are in all twenty wholesale establishments in St. Louis, 
and in addition 219 retail houses in the dry goods line, a larger representation 
for the trade than that of any city west of New Yoik. Notions, millinery, etc, 
are also prosperous Unes. 




BANKING AND FINANCB. 



The fact that during the past decade no additional banks have been estab- 
lished in St. Louis — the only changes being one or two in name, and, in some 
cases, merely an increase of capital — manifestly proves that the banking system 
here is ample, and that the conservative character of banking operations meets 
the full appreciation of business men, as well as the demands of commerce. 

Of the twenty-four banks in St. Louis, eighteen are operated under State 
charter and six are National banks. Their aggregate capital and surplus at the 
beginning of the present year was about $15,000,000, and the aggregate of 
clearings and balances for 1884 was $910,463,122, a decrease of over ten per 
cent, as compared with the previous year. The further comparison, prepared 
by Manager Chase of the Clearing House, shows the deposits of the banks, at 
date of latest statement in 1884, to have been $38,102,712, of which $9,102,021 
were time and savings deposits, the rest current. 

There never has been much glitter in banking business here — hence no 
failures ; but there is something much better, and that is the solid, substantial 
wealth which is at the base of every transaction. " Mere paper promises to 
pay do not pass current in St. Louis as they do in some cities ; the actual cash, 
or its substantial equivalent, must be present, and while growth may be slower 
under such a policy than under the conditions that govern affairs elsewhere, 
what there is, is solid timber that will last, not mere fungous growth dependent 
for existence upon atmospheric conditions." 

Adverse comment has sometimes been offered ih consideration of the fact 
that the money market sometimes rules high, and that occasionally as much as 
eight per cent, is charged for accommodation; but this is an inevitable condition 
of trade, and while the maximum rate occasionally obtains, the minimum is 
more often reached. To illustrate : Commercial business practically lasts only 
from September to April, and the demand for money is chiefly confined to an 
even less period. This comes from the fact that during these months the 
three great crops — cotton, grain and hogs — are in motion, and it is these crops, 
particularly cotton, which create the demand. During that period, while money 
is always plentiful, it is also in such demand as to cause a natural rise in price 
to the maximum rate ; but this price, can only be obtained for a comparatively 
short period, and for short loans of from thirty to ninety days. During the rest 
of the year the rates rule from seven per cent, downwards, sometimes reaching 
as low as three and four per cent, in the summer months, when there is often 
hardly any demand for money at all. 

3S 



THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 39 

Call loans, or advances made on bonds at a low rate, employ surplus 
funds in New York and other Eastern financial centers, and are occasionally 
made here as low as four per cent., but the practice is not at all general, and 
considerable funds lie idle here that would be profitably employed in the East 
in making call loans to brokers and others. The following exhibits the monthly 
clearings and balances of the St. Louis banks during 1884, which is the last 
comprehensive annual statement, as under the State laws the State banks are 
required to make their statements on December 15th, while the National banks 
make theirs December 31st; but it maybe here added that the clearings for 
the first six months of 1885 aggregated $369,507,779 : 

MONTHS. CLEARINGS. BALANCES. 

January - $74.923'037 $15,871,035 

February - 67,309,642 13,878,940 

March „ 74,677,043 13,429,154 

April - 71,640,893 12,829,044 

May 66,137,103 9,016,344 

June -.. 58,670,186 9,049,680 

July 58,720,667 8,436,910 

August „... 62,251,255 10,625,328 

September 61,991,252 8,644,769 

October _ 63,474,959 7,667,674 

November 59.454,343 7.419.297 

December .„ 65,951,798 9.393.37° 



Aggregates 785,202,177 125,260,945 

The aggregate decrease as compared with the previous year was $107,- 
389,987, or about ten and a half per cent.; but this again shows the caution 
and conservatism characteristic of St. Louis bank management, which has pre- 
rented uneasiness and panic when such feeling prevailed elsewhere. The out- 
look the present year is more reassuring everywhere, but especially in St. Louis 
are the prospects bright for a largely increased business. 

As- in all other large financial centers, the clearing house system obtains in 
St. Louis, and is found to be a great convenience to the associated banks and 
the general public. A feature introduced here, and now extending to other 
cities, is the clearing of post-office money orders and postal notes. Instead of 
being obliged to go to the post-office and cash his order or note, as formerly, 
the recipient of a remittance in that form simply deposits the order in his bank, 
where it is cashed at par and sent to the clearing house with bank checks, 
drafts or other monetary evidences. To facilitate the exchange, the money 
order department of the post-office keeps a clerk at the clearing house during 
banking hours. 

The St. Louis Post-office now does more of a banking business than evei 
before, as the following transactions of 1884 show: 

Received from depositary offices, $8,198,030.76; paid — domestic anc 
foreign money orders and postal notes, $5,085,251.30; issued — same, $1,028,- 
371.98; remittances to New York, $3,979,000.00. 

This report shows a marked increase in the business in postal notes. 



Lkadino NIanxjfacxurks 



From the earliest days of the city, it has been apparent that the future of 
St. Louis depended upon the development ot her manufacturing industries. 
Having the advantages of site and location, and in juxtaposition exhaustless 
mineral wealth and abundance of raw material, only capital, labor and enterprise 
were needed to utilize these benefits. The extraordinary possibilities in this 
direction have been fully realized, and many weighty concerns, whose produc- 
tion embraces about everything demanded in the domain of trade, have added 
by their output to the material wealth of the community. An extraordinary 
variety of supplies are here made, and it is her manufactures that have made 
St. Louis a most familiar name to the tradesmen of the world. 

Within the limits of a single volume, it is manifestly impossible to present 
in detail a review of every branch of manufacture that flourishes in St. Louis, for 
they are numerous, and some worthy an entire volume of themselves. It is 
designed merely to present, as comprehensively as possible, a resume of the con- 
dition of these industries in the year 1885. They are here noted, in the relative 
order of their importance as nearly as may be ; and the concluding chapter of 
this publication presents some additional information descriptive of the opera- 
tions of leading companies and firms engaged in manufacturing here. 

By a consolidation effected in 1883, St. Louis City and County now com- 
prise what were the first and second U. S. Liternal Revenue districts of Mis- 
souri. The internal revenue receipts last year showed a falling off as compared 
with those of prior years since 1880, although manufactured products in 1884 
showed a marked increase. This apparent anomaly is explained by the reduc- 
tion of the tax which went into effect near the close of the fiscal year of 1883. 
After the reduction, the manufacturers of tobacco and cigars increased in value 
from $18,000,000 to $22,732,280, though the revenue was reduced from $2,214,- 
222.05 to $1,818,562.27. The production of beer increased, as did also the 
revenue received therefrom, in 1884. 

THE IRON INDUSTRY. 

Inexhaustible deposits of iron ore and the excellent coal supply naturally 
led to the establishment, in St. Louis and vicinity, of extensive furnaces, steel 
and iron rolling-mills, foundries, and, in short, all kinds of works incident to iron 
manufacture. 

In 1883, fourteen coal, coke and charcoal furnaces, employing in the 
aggregate 1500 hands, produced nearly 300,000 tons of pig iron, while seven 

40 



THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 4I 

rolling-mills and steel works, employing together about 4,000 hands, had an ag- 
gregate output of manufactured product valued at nearly $12,000,000 annually. 
This was in the time of the greatest prosperity of the iron industry. But in the 
general depression that a few years since seized upon this department of manu- 
facture, St. Louis has largely shared ; and now some of these vast establishments 
are wholly idle or are working upon a limited scale. In the more extensive en- 
terprises of this character throughout the country, there has been considerable 
loss (and some here), which has been attributed to over-production in former 
years and to excessive foreign competition ; but, however this may be, the depres- 
sion does not seem to have largely extended beyond the limits of the heavier 
branches of the iron manufacturing industry, at least so far as St. Louis is con- 
cerned; and some of these, at this writing, are arranging to re-commence man- 
ufacture upon the largest scale. 

The stove works, architectural iron works, machinery-building foundries, 
car-wheel and agricultural implement works — many of the largest of which are 
more particularly described in another chapter of this work — are running in full 
blast and profitably employing a large number of hands, and turning out wares 
that are in request at home and abroad. The stove, tinware and house furnishing 
trade in St. Louis alone does a business aggregating over $6,000,000 a year ; and 
the other departments mentioned do proportionately well. The seven foundries 
in operation here melt daily from 125 to 150 tons of iron, employing in the ag- 
gregate about 800 men. The capacity of the St. Louis foundries is in excess 
of any probable demand in the near future, the policy of those who control 
them being always to keep ahead of the market and thus to be prepared for 
any and every emergency. In pursuance of this idea, a year or two ao-o, sev- 
eral of the works enlarged their foundry capacity from 25 to 50 per cent., and 
the most important have increased their facilities of all kinds so as to be able to 
supply fully 50 per cent, more than the present demands upon them. This 
fact demonstrates how much faith the men whose interests are most intimately 
involved in the business place in its future prosperity. 

The receipts of iron ore last year, notwithstanding the depression, were 
nearly 150,000 tons, and the shipments 105,590, while nearly 100,000 tons of 
pig iron were received, and more than half as much shipped. A revival of the 
iron industry is confidently expected here, as elsewhere, at an early day. 

THE FLOUR TRADE. 

Among the commercial and industrial triumphs of St. Louis, none present 
greater cause for congratulation to those interested in her welfare than the won- 
derful growth and expansion of the flour trade, both with respect to extent of 
manufacture and of sales. 

St. Louis became, a few years since, and still is, the greatest flour distri- 
buting market in the United States, and she is second only to MinneapoHs in 
the amount annually manufactured. Moreover, owing to the improved ma- 
chinery put in use, and the extra rare taken in manipulation, the St Louis pro- 
duct has largely increased in value, the quahty, according to some estimates 



42 THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS, 

having been improved fully 25 per cent. One feature of the market deserves 
special notice, and that is the way the trade has run into the handling of known 
brands, which are quoted individually instead of generally, as heretofore, under 
the name of various grades. This modification of the old system has many 
marked advantages, not the least of which is the stimulus it inspires the manu- 
facturer with, in his endeavors toim prove his product and establish the reputation 
of his brand or brands on a sure basis in the markets of this country and of 
Europe. 

The aggregate capacity of the city flouring mills and of those owned here 
but operated at suburban points in lUinois and Missouri, is equal to a produc- 
tion of 25,000 barrels a day (of twenty. four hours). The amount of last year's 
output was great, and the ^amount handled in this market more than ever be- 
fore, with the exception of the year 1882. The amount manufactured by fifteen 
mills of this city, four mills having been idle during the entire year, was 1,960,- 
737 barrels. Several of the mills increased their capacity during the year, so 
that while the number of mills has decreased, the capacity of those now running 
is greater than that of the twenty-two mills that were in operation in 1883. The 
amount manufactured by mills adjacent to the city, and owned or operated by 
St. Louis parties, shows an increase also, as the amount sold by dealers here 
but shipped direct from country points was largely in excess of the figures for 
any previous year. Adding the receipts from other points to the city and su- 
burban product, and the aggregate receipts for 1884, were 4,857,777 barrels, 
while the shipments and local consumption together nearly balanced that figure. 

The export movement, which has grown to great dimensions in the past 
few years, was greater than in 1883, the equivalent of 545,943 barrels having 
been shipped for export, of which 233,118 barrels went to England ; 156,865 to 
Scotland; 54,696 to Ireland; 73,903 to Belgium; 5,291 to South America, 
7,908 to Canada. The movement eastward by rail was 392,700 barrels, against 
587,813 barrels in the previous year, while the movement southward increased 
from 1,634,226 barrels in 1883, to 2,037,919 in 1884 The shipments to Europe 
were in sacks of various weights, and are reduced to barrels for convenience of 
reference. The shipments during the first six months of 1885, were 1,305,264 
barrels, thus giving promise that those of the year may reach 3,000,000 barrels. 

It may be said further of the St. Louis flouring mills that they have all put 
in rollers of chilled iron or steel, such a thing as an old-fashioned burr stone 
being now unknown. Indeed the roller mills produce flour at so much cheaper 
a rate that competition with them is impossible. 

GREAT CRACKER BAKERIES. 

Allied to the flour trade, or rather a deep channel for the consumption oi 
millstuffs, is the cracker making industry, which of late years has assumed no- 
ticable proportions. This branch of trade employs about $1,000,000 of capital, 
and is a means of livelihood for 1,000 bakers and other hands. One of three 
large bakeries in St. Louis alone consumes 1,400 barrels of flour daily in the 
processes of manufacture. The brands made here are in favor in all parts ol 



TPIE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 43 

this country, and within the last year or two a first-rate export trade has been 
developed. By the new reciprocity treaty with Mexico, the import duty on 
crackers hitherto exacted is removed, and St. Louis being the nearest point of 
supply, and producing incomparably the best goods, is naturally the first to feel 
the favorable effects of the treaty. One of the cracker bakeries here is the lar- 
gest in the world. The aggregate product of the St. Louis estabHshments is 
greater than that of any other city in the Union, and hence deserving of speci-'' 
notice herein. 

THE BRE^A^ING INDUSTRY. 

Elsewhere is presented some detailed information pertaining to the exten- 
sive production of the larger breweries of St. Louis. 

So largely has this interest developed in St. Louis during the last decade, 
that only New York and Philadelphia exceed the production of the twenty-three 
breweries here, Milwaukee, however, being a close fourth in the race for supre- 
macy. The capital invested in the brewing industry in St. Louis aggregates 
about $10,000,000, and the product increased from 25,000,000 gallons in 1880, 
to nearly 35,000,000 in 1884, with prospect, from attainable statistics for the 
first half of the present year, that the output in 1885 will possibly reach nearly 
40,000,000 gallons. The brewing interest pays an internal revenue tax exceed- 
ing $1,000,000 a year in this United States Revenue District. 

A still more striking illustration of the magnitude of the business is found 
in the fact that in St. Louis it gives employment to over 6,000 men ; that is to 
say, nearly half that number find work in the breweries, while as many more are 
employed in such correlative branches as cooperage, malting, ice gathering for 
breweries, etc. 

St. Louis enjoys the pre-eminence of being the only city in the United 
States whose beer is exported to the five continents of the world. It goes to 
Africa, Austraha, Asia and Europe, and there is no place of any note in North 
or South America that it does not reach. The amount of business done in 
bottled beer is something enormous, and it is a branch of the business that 
originated in St. Louis and has there achieved its greatest growth. About 2,- 
000,000 packages of the bottled product was exported last year. Domestic 
shipments are made by the larger breweries in their own refrigerating cars ; they 
also own and maintain ice houses and storage warehouses at various points con- 
venient for distribution of the supply. Some of the St. Louis brewers, too, own 
breweries in other cities, so that the foregoing figures, large as they are, do not 
represent the total interest of the city in the brewing industry. 

THE TOBACCO TRADE. 

A review of the tobacco manufacturing interest of the city, from its incep- 
tion to the date of this review, shows that within recent years it has assumed 
extraordinary proportions, and furnishes also an apt illustration of the commer- 
cial and industrial progress of St. Louis. 

The earliest records of commercial facts and conditions in St. Louis, would 
seem to date the inauguration of the manufacture of tobacco here at about 



THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 45 

1817, for a factory was then advertised by Richard & Quarles, as located near 
the primitive post office of that era, and solictious for business. Nearly twenty 
years later H. Richards, presumably of the same firm, promulgates a persuasive 
announcement to the " people of Missouri and Illinois Territories," that he is 
manufacturing tobacco " nearly opposite Neal's Copper and Tin factory." Pre- 
cisely the measure of business done by these pioneer factories, and their meth- 
ods of manufacture, are not disclosed in the narative of events. The impor- 
tance of accurate commercial data does not seem to have been realized by the 
earliest generation of business men ; but we may fairly infer that the interest 
thrived, for a veracious chronicler of 1 841 exults over the prospect of a trade 
" swelling every year into much greater importance." 

A year or two later the State encouraged cultivation of the weed, and ac- 
celerated development of all the industries influenced thereby, by the erection of 
a mammoth warehouse covering an entire block on Washington Avenue, which 
survived the march of improvement along that thoroughfare for thirty years — 
though not in use for tobacco storage during all of that time — and the munici- 
pality co-operated by appointing city inspectors of the product. In 1847, St. 
Louis acquired the largest tobacco manufacturing establishment in the West. 
This enterprise had been founded in Glasgow, Mo., in 1837, by Swinney &c 
Lewis, (subsequently Lewis Bros., and the Lewis Company), and upon the trans- 
fer of the house to St. Louis a branch was still maintained at Glasgow. Here 
as elsewhere, slave labor was employed in the manufacture of the products, as 
also in the growth of the leaf, and so late as i860, the firm had among its oper- 
atives 125 negroes, then considered, from a business point of view, assets of the 
house ; but there were more than twice that many free hands in its service. 
This house annually produced between 3,000,000 and 4,000,000 pounds of plug 
and fine cut, which was sold in every State and Territory of the time, besides ex- 
porting immense quantities of leaf and strips to Europe. The receipts of leaf 
tobacco at the St. Louis warehouses, which had previously averaged about 9,- 
coo hogsheads a year, were increased in i860 to nearly 12,000 and reached by 
1864 the enormous, but unusual aggregate of 42,490 hogsheads. 

With improvement in manufacturing processes and facilities, production also 
steadily increased. Capital and resources were applied to the development of 
the industn,^ and larger buildings were erected as factories. Thus St. Louis 
finally became notable as one of the tobacco manufacturing " centers " of the 
world. From third rank, a few years ago, in extent of production, this mar- 
ket was rated second only to Jersey City, and Newark, and last year (1884) 
even that district was distanced, nothwithstanding the efforts of the Lorillards to 
maintain precedence ; St. Louis thus becoming the greatest tobacco manufactur- 
ing city of the world, as well as attaining to high rank as a market for leaf to- 
bacco. As official evidence of this pre-eminence in the United States, the fol- 
lowing statistics, gleaned from the seven principal revenue districts of the 
country, as published by the United States Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 
are reproduced : 



46 THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 

St. Louis 22,631,104 pounds. 

Newark, N. J 19,933,420 '' 

Petersburg and Richmond 16,895,457 " 

Louisville 8,482,107 ** 

Winston, N. C 7,754,015 " 

Danville, Va 8,234,107 " 

Chicago 6,820,800 " 

Detroit 6,841,992 " 

The year 1884 showed a decreased stock of leaf tobacco everywhere, but 
less proportionately in this market than in others. The crop in Missouri was 
the largest in many years — about 20,000,000 pounds ; yet the receipts were not 
proportionately larger, the general depression of the year affecting this interest 
also. The warehouse stock aggregated 23,023 hogsheads, about one-third of 
which was received by the manufacturers direct. In the returns to the Collec- 
tor of Internal Revenue for the St. Louis district, the manufactures of 1884 are 
thus clasified : 

Plug Chewing Tobacco 18,488,399 pounds. 

Fine Cut Chewing Tobacco 330,137 " 

Smoking Tobacco „ .". , 3,763,226 " 

Snuff 49,342 " 



Total _ 22,631,104 pounds. 

From the statistics for the fiscal half-year ending June 30th, 1885, it is ap- 
parent that St. J,ouis will this year lead her competitors still further. The gov- 
emment books show payment of taxes on the manufactured product in the St. 
Louis district during the first six months of the present year as follows : 

1885. Smok'g & Chew'g. Cigars. Snuff. 

January, $166,345.80 8,719.13 260.48 

February, 160,821.96 8,587.83 252.02 

March, 192,724.03 9-5o5-2o 333-4° 

April, 180,187,43 10,633.95 303-28 

May, 167,918.86. 10,687.50 280.48 

June, 188,084.52 10,176.90 273.68 



Totals, $1,056,082.60 58,310.51 1,703.34 

The tax on chewing and smoking tobacco being eight cents a pound, it 
thus appears that during the first six months of the year, 13,201,932 pounds 
were manufactured, and this rate of increase maintained throughout the suc- 
ceeding months will show the product of 1885 to exceed that of 1884 by about 
4,000,000 pounds ; but inasmuch as there is usually a larger production in the 
fall months, it is probable that the proportionate increase over 1884 will be at 
least 25 per cent. 

The revenue paid by the St. Louis manufacturers furnishes the best evi- 
dence of the remarkable development of the industry, and officially and con- 
clusively establishes the fact that the city now leads all others in the amount and 
value of its production. It may here be incidentally mentioned that the month- 



THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 47 



ly revenue tax paid by the largest of the St. Louis factories is frequently in ex- 
cess of that paid by all the Chicago factories combined for a corresponding 
period. At the time of the reduction of the government tax on manu- 
factured tobacco, a few years ago, the unusual spectacle was presented of 
entire train loads of the product being shipped at frequent intervals to various 
parts of the country ; at which time also the factories were run day and night at 
top speed, the hands being worked on the relief system. 

Tobacco manufactured in St. Louis may be found in every part of the 
country. The brands of this city are favorites, not only in the South and West, 
but in the Eastern States too, where they come in competition with the best of 
the Eastern factories. The sales from this point are now upwards of $6,000,000 
a year, and the total capacity of all the St. Louis factories is in excess of 25,- 
000,000 pounds annually. From the best statistics, official and otherwise, it ap- 
pears that, taking the trade as a whole, there are about 300 estabHshments of all 
sorts in St. Louis, employing in the aggregate $3,000,000 of capital, and 
over 4,000 hands. The cigar making establishments number 276, and the value of 
their product is over $1,000,000 a year. Chewing and smoking tobaccos and 
snuff are produced to the value of $5,000,000 and over. Within the last few 
years the manufacture of cigars and cigarettes has greatly increased in St. 
Louis. This point is a distributing center besides for Southern factors, who 
keep agencies and heavy stocks in the city at all times. Havana and Key 
West manufacturers too have heavy dealings in this market. 

LEATHER MANUFACTURES. 

The tanning industry of St. Louis is growing in importance, but it is rather 
in special lines of leather manufacture that this market has achieved promi- 
nence. In the single product of leather belting, St. Louis has not only made 
itself known throughout this country, but in foreign lands as well, where the 
goods, manufactured by a process elsewhere more fully described, are in use in 
the largest manufacturing establishments of this country and Europe, 

SADDLERY, HARNESS, ETC. 

As a point for the manufacture and distribution of saddlery, saddlery hard- 
ware, harness of all description, and everything pertaining to these branches 
of the trade, St. Louis is admitted to stand without a rival on this continent, 
both in excellence of wares and extent of trade. It has been so since this city 
stood on the frontiers of civilization, and all attempts of other locaHties to 
compete in these special lines of manufacture have proven futile. St. Louis 
manufactured goods are sent by the manufacturers and dealers now to every 
part of the American continent, both North and South, and to the islands of the 
oceans, both Adantic and Pacific, while a demand has also sprung up in Aus- 
tralia, China and Japan. In the prosecution of the business there are, including 
jobbers, a dozen firms engaged, employing altogether a capital of over $2,500,000 
and utilizing the labor of 1,200 operatives constantly. Through the opening 
up of trade relations with Mexico, a still greater range is assured for this trade. 



48 THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 

BOOT AND SHOE FACTORIES. 

While the East, and especially New England, still controls and operates a 
majority of the shoe factories of the United States, yet, as in the olden time, 
" wise men have come from the East," and have estabHshed western factories 
that in excellence of product already rival the parent industries, and in extent 
of trade promise ultimately to echpse the largest of the eastern estabhshments. 

St. Louis has been especially favored in being chosen as the location of some 
of the largest and best equipped factories in the West, and having been always a 
good distributing point for boots and shoes, there are also a large number of 
jobbing houses here, with extensive business connections and ample resources. 
As a market for the buyer this has always ranked second only to Boston. The 
extent and number of houses engaged in the business here causes the most 
active competition, and that renders it compulsory to cut down the margin of 
profit to the lowest possible standard. This is felt throughout the entire South 
and Southwest, particularly where the Chicago and Cincinnati jobbing houses 
cannot compete at all with this city, while in competition for the Northwestern 
trade St. Louis is already distancing Chicago. Manufacturing too has so in- 
creased that within a short time nearly all the jobbers are likely to become 
manufacturers, thus rendering the West and Southwest entirely independent of 
the eastern factories. The St. Louis brands of shoes, where they come into 
competition with eastern-made wares, are preferred by dealers and purchasers. 
Factories hereabouts have lately been enlarged and some additional ones built ; 
so that in manufacturing alone a capital of about $i, coo, coo is employed, while 
the large number of jobbers command resources aggregating $3,000,000. The 
trade last year (the seasons being dull) aggregated about $15,000,000 ; but at 
this Avriting orders are coming in so freely that there is encouragement to hope 
for a large increase, as the result of the Spring and Fall seasons of 1885, both 
in territorial extent of trade and number of cases sold. 

FURNITURE FACTORIES. 

In this branch of manufacture St. Louis attained early prominence ; for 
trade annals record that in 181 5 J. D. Ru?sell "carried on a chair factory," and 
three years later another establishment of the kind occupied a place on Second 
street. When, about twenty-five years ago, the industry began to asr-mie strik- 
ing proportions, it required much determination, persistent effort and the expen- 
diture of a very considerable capital to effectively maintain competition with 
the East ; but this was finally accompHshed. At present about sixty firms and 
companies are engaged in this industry in St. Louis, some of them quite largely, 
as elsewhere set forth, and their handiwork is in large demand throughout the 
West and South, and to some extent in the East also. About 1500 hands are 
usually employed in this branch of manufacture, and the value of the annual 
product exceeds $2,000,000. The industry has grown somewhat during the 
year, and the present season is one of even larger promise. 



THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS, 49 



BUILDING MATERIAL MANUFACTURE. 

Allusion has been made to the development of that branch of the iron in- 
dustry pertaining directly to the production of architectural iron. In other 
branches of manufacture connected with the building trade, and in materials 
more largely utilized in building, there has also been rapid and extensive devel- 
opment in St. Louis. The past five or six years has been especially notable for 
the extent and quality of the material made at the various mills, foundries, ma- 
chine and stamping shops, and brick and stone yards, and for the comparative 
cheapness of the material produced. 

Commenting recently upon this most satisfactory condition of affairs, the 
Building Trade Journal, a recognized organ of that interest, observes that in 
the one line of brick the St. Louis product is now famous throughout the entire 
scope of country west of the AUeghanies as the best in quahty and cheapest in 
price, the only element of cost that prevents its being almost exclusively used 
being the transportation over long distances. This arises, principally, from the 
fact that, with the solitary exception of the clay lands in New Jersey, there is no 
other district in the United States that can boast anywhere near such excellent 
raw material for brick making as the belt of territory surrounding and immedi- 
ately within and adjacent to the city limits on the west. The consequence of 
this special advantage has been that the art and business methods of brick man- 
ufacture have been cultivated here to the highest possible pitch. Moreover, as 
the raw material lies right at hand, it has no* been possible to afflict this industry 
with inimical freight discrimination. 

With regard to timber and lumber products, the extent of which interest 
may be more fully reaHzed by reference to the detailed mention of firms and 
companies operating in this line, St. Louis has always held foremost rank in re- 
spect to the manufacture of sash, blinds, doors, mouldings, etc. There has been 
some complaint in the past that the railroads discriminated against this market 
in the transportation of soft woods, but nevertheless the trade in this line was 
not materially reduced, and St. Louis continued to be acknowledged as at once 
the greatest and cheapest hard wood market in the world. For yellow pine, wal- 
nut, ash, oak and gum, it is even the source of supply for Chicago, whose prices 
are fixed by the market quotations here. Thus, it is obvious that the St. Louis 
manufacturers who possess the absolute control of prices in this important' par- 
ticular can aff'ord to sell white pine and its products for a narrower margin of 
profit than her neighbors, the average being maintained by their superior advan- 
tages with regard to the hard woods. And, as a matter of fact, this is done, the 
St. Louis quotations being always as low and in many instances lower than those 
of Chicago. Moreover, all the fixed charges, as for rent, taxes, fuel and some- 
times labor, are constantly lower here than there, while the freights from this city 
to consuming points over the entire West and Southwest are considerably lower. 

Another element which enters largely into the cost of building is glass. In 
this particular St. Louis is without a rival on the continent, whether as a man- 
ufacturing or distributing point. Missouri sand for glass making is famous 



50 



THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 



throughout the world, the deposits, all within a few miles of St. Louis and imme- 
diately adjacent to enormous beds of coal and fire clay, being the purest and 
most easily worked of any known, either in Europe or America. The conse- 
quence is that this manufacture has here grown into tremendous proportions, 
and the best quality of glass is produced at less cost than in any other city ; while 
the glass importers and dealers of this city have also devoted extraordinary en- 
ergy and business skill, combined with ample capital, in building up their branch 
of the business, till it has reached proportions that enable them to supply the 
outside world, but particularly the West and Southwest, at prices which defy 
competition. 

In combination with glass, various metals enter into building industries, and 
here the advantages of proximity to iron and lead mines are paramount. Iron 
in its various shapes, but particularly galvanized iron for roofing, cornices and 
the like, is produced here cheaper and better than in any city in the Union with, 
perhaps, the solitary exception of Pittsburg ; and even as to that city, our gal- 
vanized iron manufacturers compete with and beat the Pittsburg men on their 
own ground. 

In lead production, whether sheet or pipe, or whether in white or red lead 
for paints, this is also the best market in the country ; and so too with oils, for 
the mills of St. Louis not only supply about one-fourth of the demands of the 
United States, but ship enormous quantities to Europe every year, 

MANUFACTURES OF WOOD, ETC. 

Proceeding from the immense lumber trade of St. Louis, above referred to 
in its relation to the supply of building material, are a variety of manufacturing 
industries, year by year growing in importance and extent of trade. 

The manufacture of carriages and wagons is here carried on upon a most 
extensive scale. There are several large box factories, planing mills and coop- 
erage shops in great variety; wood carving and turning, picture frame and 
moulding factories, and Hke enterprises connected with industries in which wood 
and lumber play a part, the whole employing millions of capital and thousands 
of operators. 

Nor should it be forgotten that there is no single industry pursued in St. 
Louis which is so completely in advance of any other of similar character m 
this country, as the manufacture and sale of wooden and willow ware. Indeed, 
this city stands pre-eminent in this respect, not only in the United States, but 
in the world, for in no other city is there anything like the quantity produced or 
sold. The woodenware business proper embraces tubs, pails, wash-boards, 
churns, kegs, bowls, axe and pick handles, well-buckets, matches, and every va- 
riety of wooden household utensils, while willow ware includes every conceivable 
thing in the way of a basket. Of late years, however, there have been asso- 
ciated with these, cordage and rope, wrapping paper, paper bags, axle grease, 
brushes, brooms, flint and green flasks, demijohns, and an almost endless variety 
of grocers' notions, household hardware, stationery, etc. 



THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 5 1 

NATIVE WINE MANUFACTURE. 

With six varieties of grapes native to the soil and phylloxera-proof, Mis- 
souri is rising into repute as a wine-growing State of consequence, and St. Louis 
as a wine market of importance. The wines made here have an admitted ex- 
cellence. As expert grape-growers maintain that there are 15,000,000 acres of 
land in Missouri suitable for vineyards, the opportunities for expansion are prac- 
tically illimitable. The growth of the trade in Missouri wines is very satisfac- 
tary to the manufacturers. One company extensively engaged in the manufac- 
ture of champagne here, utilizes yearly from 400 to 500 tons of the choicest 
grapes, and produces annually over half a million botdes of wine, not one of 
which is permitted to leave the cellars until it has lain there three years at least, 
thus acquiring that age which is necessary to the perfecting of the flavor. The 
product is not only shipped to every State in the Union, but extensively ex- 
ported also, as many as 25,000 cases having been forwarded to Europe last 
year. 

DRUG MANUFACTURING INTEREST. 

With the exception of New York, no market in the country equals St. Louis 
in extent of manufacture and sales of drugs and chemicals. The territory which 
gets its supplies of drugs from St. Louis comprises the entire country west of 
the east line of Ohio, so far south as Mexico and Lower California, and north 
to British Columbia. The capital utilized in the business here exceeds $3,500,- 
000, and the annual sales, which increase from year to year, now aggregate 
about $15,000,000. The goods manufactured here grow in popularity on ac- 
count of the continued increase of the skill and experience apphed to their 
manufacture. Besides their stock of standard drugs and chemicals, the St. 
Louis houses do business also in an immense variety of druggists' sundries, 
including all descriptions of toilet requisites and other articles for use and orna- 
ment known to the trade. 

MANUFACTURE OF CLOTHING. 

Within the past five years the manufacture of clothing has become an im- 
portant and constantly increasing industry in St. Louis. Already it has become 
the chief supply market for the South and Southwest, in jeans and other of the 
cheaper kinds of ready-made clothing, and is also working up a large trade in 
these and the finer grades in every direction through the Southern States as far 
east as Georgia ; through all western and southern Illinois, and all through 
Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Utah and the States and Territo- 
ries of the Northwest and the Pacific slope. The capital employed in the busi- 
ness exceeds $1,500,000 ; about 3,500 people find work in the making of the 
goods, and the aggregate trade is expected to reach fully $3,500,000 the present 
year. 




A Moresque Design. 

J. B. McElfatrick, Architect. 



THE MUNICIPALITY. 



St. Louis for some years past has been governed under the operations of 
what is termed the " Scheme and Charter," which confers especial charter privi- 
leges and imposes considerable restraint also, in respect to Hmitation of taxation 
for muncipal purposes. The city is entirely independent of the county, and is, 
in fact, recognized by statute as a county of itself The departments of the 
government are three — executive, legislative and judicial. The mayor and elective 
department officers and boards constitute the executive ; the council and house of 
delegates, the legislative body — the former elected from the city at large, the latter, 
one each from the 28 wards — and the judicial system comprehends the Court of 
Appeals, which also has jurisdiction outside the city; five Circuit Courts; a Pro- 
bate Court ; the Criminal Court ; the Court of Criminal Correction and three 
district Police Courts, besides a number of Justices of the Peace or Magistrates. 
The elective officers constituting the executive department at the present time, 
are : Mayor, David R. Francis ; Comptroller, Robert A. Campbell ; Treasurer, 
F. F. Espenchied ; Auditor, A. J. Smith ; Register, D. O'Connell Tracy ; Col- 
lector, H. Clay Sexton ; Marshal, Martin Neiser ; Assessor, John J. O'Brien ; 
Coroner, Dr. S. L. Nidelet ; Sheriff, Henry F. Harrington ; Recorder of Deeds, 
Thos. F. Farrelly; President Board of Public Improvements, Henry Flad; 
President of Council (acting Mayor), W. R. Allen; Inspector of Weights and 
Measures, Andrew Haley. 

There are also appointive officers and boards having charge of streets ; the 
water supply ; harbor and wharves; public parks ; public buildings ; inspection 
of boilers ; law department, etc. The Health Department is composed of an 
appointed Commissioner and a Board. The Police Board is appointed by the 
Governor of the State, the Mayor being President ex-ofificio. The heads of the 
Fire Department are appointed by the Mayor, by and with the advice of the 
upper house of the Municipal Assembly. 

The fiscal condition of the city is excellent and its credit abroad so well 
sustained that the last issued municipal bonds, though drawing only four per 
cent, interest, commanded a premium. At the close of the last fiscal year (April 
13, 1885), the balance in the treasury was $865,287.61, although the current 
expenditure for the year then closed had aggregated $7,048,443.65. The assess- 
ment for the cur'ent year will be based upon the following valuation just com- 
pleted. Real estate, $177,857,240 ; personal property, $28,188,400. But these 
large sums do not include special assessments for street paving and other im- 
provements of that nature 

53 



54 THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 

In the internal administration of the affairs of St. Louis remarkable activity 
has been shown in the way of public improvements. Not the least has been 
the adoption of a new system of paving with granite blocks, some west-running 
streets having, also, been laid with a fine quality of asphaltum, making most ex- 
cellent boulevards. The total cost of construction with granite last year, was 
$493,376.88, of which the city paid $11,966.25, and property owners $481,- 
410.13; reconstruction with gum wood, Telford, macadam, etc., $124,927.49, of 
which the city paid $5,345.09, and property owners $119,582.40. There were 
5,203 special tax bills issued, amounting in the aggregate to $733,104.36. The 
sum of $81,144.63 was paid by property owners for the construction of district 
sewers, and a total of $51,878.67 was expended for improvements of alleys and 
sidewalks, of which the city paid $911.47, and the property owners $50,967.20. 
The street department was maintained at an expense of $1,005,631.32. There 
are 49.77 miles of public sewets, and 182.37 miles of private sewers now in use, 
making the total sewerage of the city 232.14 miles. Total cost of public sewers 
to date, $3,908,766.04, and of private sewers $3,013,732.97, making a total cost 
of $6,922,499.01. 

St. Louis has a very large public park area, second only to that of Phila- 
delphia, covering 2,095.07 acres, the total cost of which has been $3,782,- 
669.29. The maintenance of thir department during the last fiscal year, cost 
nearly $50,000. 

A larger number of buildings were erected during the fiscal year than for 
many years previously. The buildings numbered nearly 3,000, and the valua- 
tion is thus officially reported : Estimated value of new brick buildings, $6,583,- 
968 ; new frame, $365,446 ; and for alterations and additions, $519,538; making 
a grand total of improvements projected, $7,568,952. 

The fire department and fire alarm telegraph, the maintenance of which 
last year cost $480,727.21, has an equipment consisting of 25 steam engines, 
5 large chemicals, 6 hook and ladder apparatus, 7 fuel wagons, 162 horses, 
7 officers and 243 men. There are on hand 29,000 feet of serviceable hose. 
The total mileage of the fire and police telegraph is 753 miles. The depart- 
ment is most efficient. 

The available police force, mounted and foot, is 532 men, and the equip- 
ment includes 75 saddle horses and 16 patrol-wagon teams. The entire cost of 
the department last year was $553,084.85. 

THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 

St. Louis possesses large and comprehensive educational privileges. The 
public school system is under the direction of a Board of Education, elected 
from the twenty-eight wards of the city, and is independent of the city govern- 
ment proper. Besides normal and high schools, there are eighty graded di's- 
trict schools, inclusive of twelve for the education of colored children. The 
school buildings are generally substantial structures. The property subject to 
school taxes this year has an assessed valuation of $207,910,350. 

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other denominational institutions of learning, exclusive of a large number of 
academies, convent schools, colleges and universities in the city and vicinity. 

Other evidence that arts and literary culture are appreciated in St. Louis, 
is found in the well-maintained Mercantile Library, the Public Library, Law 
and Medical Libraries, etc., as well as in the Crow Art Museum, the His- 
torical Society, Academy of Sciences, and numerous other bodies and institu- 
tions designed to promote letters, arts and sciences. 




ST. LOUIS EXPOSITION. 

For many years St. Louis has attracted attention by her unrivaled Fair, 
which in course of time passed beyond the limits of a district or State expo- 
sition, and became known as an annual display of the products and arts and 
mechanism of the entire Mississippi Valley. Not only did it outgrow any like 
enterprise in the country, but it actually outgrew itself Hence it became nec- 
essary to separate Fair and Exposition, and while both continue large enter- 
prises they exist independently, though without antagonism. 

The magnificent new Exposition Building and Music Hall, which occupies 
two entire blocks, with principal entrances on Olivie Street, was the outgrowth 
of a popular desire for a down-town central point of exhibition, where all the 
latest improvements in machinery and mechanical products could be seen. In 
less than three weeks $500,000 was subscribed toward the enterprise, and ad- 
ditional sums as needed. The building was erected in time for the Exposition 
last Fall, at a cost of about $700,000, and the display, to which all parts of the 
country contributed, was a large and comprehensive one. The present year 
the Music Hall was completed, and proves to be admirably adapted to the pur- 
pose. The Exposition this fall will comprise a display from foreign countries, 
as well as the best America can make, and some of the best features of the 
World's Exposition at New Orleans will be reproduced in their entirety. 

The history of Expositions in other cities, in encouraging and developing 
an interest in industrial display, has been more than paralleled in St. Louis. In 
connection with last year's exhibit, there were meetings of national organization 
of manufacturers, all tending to promote the interests of the industrial world. 



56 THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 

THE METROPOLITAN PRESS. 

No factor has been more potent in advancing the interests of St. Louis and 
reflecting her energy and commercial enterprise to the world than the newspa- 
pers of the city. For some years lying under the imputation of what is called 
"provincialism" in methods and tone, within the past decade the St. Louis 
dailies have progressed to an extent entitling them to rank among the best in 
the higher classification denominated " Metropolitan " journals. In the extent 
and comprehensiveness of their news presentation, from day to day, they equal 
the best representatives of the press of New York City. 

The leading dailies in St. Louis are the Republican, the Globe-Democrat, 
and the Post-Dispatch, English^papers, and the Anzeiger des JVestens, Westliche 
Post, and Amerika, printed in the German language. 

THE REPUBLICAN. 

The Missouri Republican has a history contemporary with that of St. Louis, 
and dating from a period anterior to the creation of the Territory of Missouri. 
Established in July, 1808, as the Missouri Gazette, by Joseph Charless, who had 
been obliged to fly from Ireland in consequence of participation in the rebel- 
lion of 1795, the paper has undergone many changes in its seventy-seven years 
of pubUcation. In 1827, the late George Knapp, whose name is incorporated 
in that of the publishing company, entered the printing office of the paper as 
an apprentice. In ten years he was admitted to partnership in the firm of 
Chambers, Harris & Knapp, and ihe paper, which in 1882 had changed its 
name to the Republican, now became a daily. The great fire of '49 destroyed 
the estabhshment, but it was rebuilt; and in 1854, the senior member having 
died and the second in rank retired, George Knapp acquired entire possession. 
He associated with himself his brother, John Knapp, and also Nathaniel Paschall, 
who, in early years, had been a partner of the founder of the paper. George 
Knapp assumed the function of editor-in-chief, which position he held up to 
the time of his death in 1883. The fiftieth anniversary of his connection with 
the paper was pubhcly celebrated by the Merchants Exchange, in 1877. Mr. 
N. Paschall died in 1866, but the partners having previously formed a corpora- 
tion, his son Henry succeeded to his interest. The paper, which had been a 
Whig organ as long as that party existed, became Democratic afterwards, and 
so remains. The massive and elegant building occupied by the Republican 
was erected in 1873, ^.nd is one of the finest in the city. Upon the decease of 
Geo. Knapp, the editorship-in-chief was conferred upon Mr. Wm. Hyde, who 
had been an attache of the paper since 1856, beginning his journalistic career 
as legislative correspondent at Springfield, Illinois. He had later been promo- 
ted through the successive grades to that of managing editor, and was in entire 
accord with the policy of the earlier owners. Mr. Hyde maintained the distinc- 
tive character of the paper, aspiring to have it respected for its age and dignified 
tone, no less than for the accuracy of its news — hence the popular designation 
of the paper, and one in which its management took pride, became " Old Relia- 
ble." A few months since, Mr. Hyde embarked for Europe, and Mr. Frank R, 



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O'Neill, formerly city editor, was promoted to the post of managing editor. 
With the infusion of new blood, the paper has become brighter and lighter in 
editorial, as well as fuller in its presentation of news happenings, 

THE GLOBE-DEMOCRAT. 

The Globe-Democrat occupies a field peculiarly its own, and therein is un- 
approachable. Entirely regardless of expense, the paper procures cablegrams 
and dispatches from all parts of the world, and maintains special correspon- 
dents in every considerable city and town on the continent. The policy of the 
management is to give all the news attainable from day to day in every quarter. 
Every other feature of the business is subordinated to news gathering. The 
paper originated with the Democrat, which in turn had succeeded the Argus, 
the Signal, and the old time free-soil paper the Barnburner. The Afissouri 
Detnocrat wdiS established in 1853 by Wm. McKee and Wm. Hill, and among 
its editors in earlier times were Gen. Frank P. Blair, B. Gratz Brown, Peter L. 
Foy, and others of distinction. Originally Democratic — although Mr. McKee 
was always an opponent of slavery — it became Republican in i860, supported 
Mr. Lincoln, and later was a strong opponent of secession measures. In 1857, 
Mr. Geo. W. Fishback became a partner of Mr. McKee's, and in 1865, D. M. 
Houser, who had risen from newsboy to book-keeper, was admitted to 
to the firm of McKee, Fishback & Co. So the paper continued in a career of 
prosperity until 1872, when such differences arose between the co-partners, that, 
to settle litigation, the Democrat was sold to Mr. Fishback for $457,000. Messrs. 
McKee and Houser, however, finding retirement irksome, the same year estab- 
Ushed the St. Louis Globe. The rivalry between the two papers was intense, 
and as the newer grew in strength, the older lost its hold upon popularity, and 
especially so when Mr. Joseph B. McCullagh took editorial charge of the Globe, 
which soon thereafter absorbed the Democrat by purchase, the price paid being 
$325,000. The name, after the consolidation, is now that of a journal known 
all over the Union — the Globe-Democrat. In 1879, Wm. McKee died, and Mr. 
Houser succeeded to the presidency of the stock company. Vigorous business 
management, backed by spirited editorial policy, have combined to make a cir- 
culation for the paper greater than any other in the West. Mr. McCullagh is 
an incisive writer, and possessed of rare executive ability. As a war correspon- 
dent, and as a political writer at Washington, he achieved national cele- 
brity ; but as editor of the Globe- Democrat he has, if possible, excelled his 
earlier journalistic record. The paper is a power in national politics, and al- 
though soundly Republican is in no sense a subservient party organ. 

THE POST-DISPATCH. 

This is the most successful afternoon newspaper ever established in St Louis, 
and, in the view of many readers, the only city journal that fully and satisfacto- 
rily presents the local news. The English morning dailies, full to repletion with 
i itelligence of occurrences everywhere else, ordinarily devote little attention to 
local events, hence the bright and thrifty afternoon paper occupies a field of 
great usefulness and with marked popular approval. While its history may be 



58 THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 

traced back to 1862, and to the Union, a very radical Republican organ of that 
period, yet the Post-Dispatch is to all intents and purposes a journal of the 
present decade. In 1876, Hon. Joseph Pulitzer, its present owner and likewise 
principal proprietor of the New York World, purchased the old Dispatch, which 
was nearly defunct, for $2,500. A few days later he absorbed the Post, a paper 
established by John A Dillon, formerly a writer upon the Globe-Democrat ; and 
added the Star z\&o. The consolidated journal was Q.2i}\&A\}[i% Post- Dispatch, 
but despite the fact that it was ably edited jy Messrs. Puhtzer and Dillon, the 
paper scarcely more than held its own. In 1879 M^- Dillon retired, and was 
succeeded by Col. John A. Cockerill, formerly of the Cincinnati Enquirer. He 
developed an aggressive editorial policy, and the city news was also made a 
special feature under his direction. No unnecessary space was giving to vol- 
uminous accounts of foreign affairs, but every topic of interest to St. Louis peo- 
ple was given space. 

An energetic corps of reporters contributed much to the enterprise. The 
people observed, read, admired and subscribed, and the Post-Dispatch took rank 
never before accorded an afternoon paper in St. Louis. It is Democratic in 
politics, but not to be classed as a party organ. When Mr. Pulitzer purchased 
the New York World and moved to the metropoHs, he initiated the same policy 
there. When Col. Cockerill became managing editor of the World, Mr. Dil- 
lon resumed editorial connection with the Post-Dispatch, and still conducts that 
paper, under the direction of the proprietor. The city department, still the lead- 
ing feature, is presided over by John T. Magner, whose staff is composed of the 
ablest and most energetic reporters in St. Louis. Mr. PuUtzer rose from a very 
humble sphere in this city, and is a thorough newspaper man himself. He is 
now a congressman, chosen with great unanimity by a New York district. 

THE GERMAN PRESS. 

The population of St. Louis being largely composed of Germans, by birth 
or descent, there are several papers published in that tongue here. 

The Anzeiger des Westens, edited by Carl Daenzer, and published by a 
company of which he is president, is a very able and popular morning journal, 
with especial liking for weighty polemic discussion. Its news department is well 
conducted and its circulation large. The Anzeiger is Democratic politically. 

The Westliche Post was formerly edited and largely owned by Hon Carl 
Schurz ; but he is understood to have sold his interest to his friend and partner, 
Dr. Emil Preetorius, who edits the journal to the entire satisfaction of its read- 
ers. The Westliche Post is a morning paper, and Republican politically. 

The Amerika is also a morning journal, owned by the German Literary So- 
ciety, It is especially representative of the German CathoHc interest, and is 
ably edited by Dr. Preuss, a writer of philosophical attainments. Politically the 
paper is Democratic. 

The St. Louis Tribune is an evening paper of great force in the presenta- 
tion of news. It especially represents the extreme or stalwart wing of the Ger- 
man Republicans. 



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OTHER PUBLICATIONS. 

The Chronicle is a two-cent evening paper, and was established under the 
auspices of a company also owning " penny papers " in Detroit, Cincinnati and 
Cleveland. Its aim is to present all the news in a condensed shape, and for a 
time it was edited by the late Dr. John B. Wood, the " great American con- 
denser " of the New York Sun. The Chronicle is nobly battling for a high place 
in St. Louis journalism. 

The French people also have an able weekly, Le Patriote, edited by F. J. 
Seguenot. 

Denominational papers are published here in great number, representative 
of every sect. Medicine and surgery are represented by well-conducted maga- 
zines and journals. Society journals, and papers representative of agricultural, 
railway, school and other interests abound. 

The leading trades and industries have their exponents, such, for instance, 
as the Age of Steel, Leather Gazette, St. Louis Grocer, Building Trades Jotir- 
nal. Stove and Hardiuare Reporter, and like meritorious publications. 



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Rkprkskntattive: Hoxjsks. 



SKETCHES OF LEADING METROPOLITAN MERCHANTS, 
MANUFACTURERS, ETC. 



THE concluding chapter of this work is devoted to a review of the history 
of a few of the leading mercantile and manufacturing houses, whose 
aggregate capital and enterprise have so greatly aided in the development of 
the commercial and trade industries of St. Louis, and in the advancement and 
perpetuation of her wealth and civilization. Only houses whose reputations are 
above suspicion have been mentioned ; and if the list be incomplete, it is not 
because of any bias on the part of the editors or publishers. But compara- 
tively few of the large retail houses of the city have a place in this volume, 
because their interests are merely local, and because the '• Industries of St. 
Louis" is intended for wide circulation, such as would not be justified by their 
patronage. 

CROW, HARGADINE & CO. 

Jobbers of Dry Goods and Notions: Corner Sth Street and Washington Avenue. 

This establishment has an eventful history, contemporaneous with the record of the trade 
development of St. Louis. When the late Wayman Crow, who lived until last May, founded 
this house in 1835, in conjunction with the late Joshua Tevis, of Philadelphia, the business of 
St. Louis was chiefly confined to the Levee, and communication between this city and the 
East was by river to New Orleans, thence by sea to New York or river to Pittsburgh, and 
thence by wagon to Philadelphia and farther East. The time between New York and St. 
Louis was not less than sixty days, and when a season's goods arrived by boat, it was a civic 
event. Communication with the interior was even more difficult, and goods were not often 
paid for within a year or so of their purchase. All the firms in existence at that time in St. 
Louis had ceased trade relations long before the recent decease of Mr. Crow. The successive 
changes in the style of the firm were: Crow, Tevis & McCreery; Crow, McCreery & Barks- 
dale; and upon the retirement of the latter, became Crow, McCreery & Co. Mr. McCreery 
died in 1861, and Mr. Geo. D. Appleton retired the following year, leaving as members of 
the firm Wayman Crow, the founder, Wm. A. Hargadine, Hugh McKittrick, David D. 
Walker, and Francis Ely. There were subsequent additions to and changes in the firm, and 
the style became Crow, Hargadine & Co., which name it still retains. The partners now are 
Wm. A. Hargadine, Hugh McKittrick, E. J. Glasgow, Jr., S. C. Bunn, J. W. Morrison, J. 
C. Wilkinson, and E. S. Lewis. 

Mr. Crow's business sagacity and energy safely carried the old firm through several try- 
ing commercial crises since 1835, and one destructive fire. His business energy and public 
spirit found recognition in his election as President of the St. Louis Chamber of Com- 
merce for ten years, commencing in 1840, an honor conferred upon no successor in that office. 
In 1840, and again in 1850, he was elected to the State Senate, and was one of the organ- 
izers of the H. & St. Joe, and Missouri Pacific Railroads, also obtaining charters for various 
educational institutions, including the Mercantile Library. As a patron of art and literature 

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he liberally endowed the Washington University and other educational institutions, thus do- 
nating over $300,000; and in memory of a deceased son erected the magnificient Art Museum 
on Nineteenth Street and Lucas Place. He lived to see the house he founded become one 
of the largest in the West, and to observe its trade increase from $100,000 to millions a year. 
Like the founder, the present members of the firm are distinguished for public spirit and 
devotion to the commercial interests of St. Louis. Messrs. Hargadine, McKittrick and the 
others are all identified with corporations, banks and other enterprises tending to promote the 
business welfare of this metropolis of the Mississippi Valley. The house has several times 
changed its location with the advance and increase of trade, and has for some years been 
located, as at present, in a very handsome and imposing structure at the southeast corner of 
Eighth and Washington Avenue, covering 108x150 feet, five stories and basement, and con- 
taining elevators and other conveniences for reaching the vast stock of goods therein stored. 
A large force of salesmen and other attaches are employed, and the wholesale trade of the 
house is very extensive throughout the West and Southwest. 

HUNTER, EVANS & CO. 

Live Stock Comrnission Merchants: Union Stock Yards, Chicago; National Stock Yards, Ea<;t St 

Louis. 

If progressiveness, speed, and all those characteristics that have made American busi- 
ness methods esteemed, merit mention in a work professing to describe the principal in- 
dustries of St. Louis, then the firm which is the subject of this sketch has claims to that dis- 
tinction that may not be overlooked. The. commission house of Hunter & Evans was founded 
in 1873 by Col. R. D. Hunter and Capt. A. G. Evans. Mr. M. P. Buel was admitted to a 
partnership about six years ago. No other change occurred until April, 1885, when Messrs. 
W. Hunter and T. J. Daniel acquired their respective interests, as appears from the " greet- 
ing" issued by the house about that time. 

The senior members of this firm have a personality distinct from their every day voca- 
tion. Without indulging in buncombe, it may truthfully be said of them that they have done 
more individually and jointly to advance the interest with which they are connected, and in 
which they are the foremost figures of the time, than anybody else. Col. Hunter was the 
moving spirit in calling and in the organization of the first National Cattlemen's Convention 
of America, which in the fall of '84 assembled in the Exposition building in St. Louis, and 
which was a most notable body, representing as it did the leading ranch owners and stock 
breeders of the United States, who control interests valued at two thousand millions of dol- 
lars. In recognition of his services, Col. Hunter was made President of the permanent or- 
ganization, now known as the National Cattle and Horse Growers' Association of the United 
States. 

During the twelve years of its existence the house of Hunter, Evans & Co. has trans- 
acted an enormous business, handling an annual average of 70,000 cattle, 100,000 hogs, and 
50,000 sheep. Its yearly transactions equal in amount, if they do not exceed, $5,000,000. 
Hunter & Evans were the promoters and managers of the first beef canning establishment 
ever established in St. Louis. The original works, corner of Fourteenth and Poplar, were 
burned, but were rebuilt near the stock yards in East St. Louis. The firm afterwards sold 
out its interest, but the present plant, worth at least $500,000, is a part of their investment 
and shows the breadth of their ordinary operations. 

In addition to their live stock and commission enterprises. Hunter & Evans control an 
immense leasehold in the Indian Territory which they use for ranching purposes, and on 
which there are 20,000 cattle. They also own a controlling interest in the Comanche Land 
and Cattle Company, and the Running Water Land and Cattle Company, which have cattle 
sufficient to bring the grand total of possessions controlled by them up to 70,000 head, rep- 
resenting over $2,000,000 of capital. 

In April last, as appears from the circular spoken of above, the house opened a branch 
office in Chicago, and is now able to offer double advantages to its customers by giving them 
choice of the two principal live stock markets of the world in which to have dealings. To 
quote the firm's own language: " In opening the CI 'cago office we do not propose to de- 
tract any from the St Louis house. The relation of the two houses will be very close, and 
our customers, upon application to either office, will be furnished with any desired informa- 
tion relative to either market. A double advantage offered patrons of our houses is the 
through billing to Chicago, with privilege of St. Louis, whereby stock may be consigned to 
us at Chicago on a through rate, and if deemed advisable by the shipper, can be sold by the 
St. Louis house, thus giving our customers a favorable freight rate, the benefit of any ad- 
vance in either market, and protecting them as far as practicable against a decline. The 
change implies increased shipping and market facihties; better values in sales of stock; more 
favorable freight rates, and better general protection than could otherwise be afforded. 



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"Our Chicago office will be under the personal management of Mr. M. P. Buel, who for 
the past five years has so ably conducted the affairs of the St. Louis house. He will also 
have charge of the cattle department, and will be assisted, both on the yards and in the office, 
by an efficient corps of yard and office men. Mr Buel's reputation as a cattle salesman, and 
his successful business career, are points that especially recommend him to the live-stock 
trade generally. 

" Mr. W. Hunter, when not selling cattle on the yards in Chicago, will represent both 
houses in the capacity of general traveling and soliciting agent. Mr. Hunter is well known 
throughout the West, Southwest and Northwest, and whether on the yards or in the country 
he will, at all times, be prepared to render customers any assistance and information in his 
puwer. He is also authorized to make liberal cash advances on stock ready for shipment. 

"Mr. Wm. M. Parsons, the veteran hog salesman — for years connected with our St. Louis 
house — will have charge of the hog and sheep departments in the Chicago yards, and with his 
competent corps of assistants will continue to serve old and new customers. Mr. Parsons 
will give personal attention to all correspondence relating to the departments under his care, 
and the trade is respectfully invited to apply to him for information. (Since issuing its 
"greeting" the firm has decided to retain Mr. Parsons in the St. Louis office). 

" Mr. J. T. (" Jeff ") Daniel, for many years connected with the firm of Little, Jarvis & 
Co., will have charge of the cattle department of the St. Louis house; and with an excellent 
corps of vard men, will extend to our customers the same courtesy and business consideration 
that has been accorded by this house for the past twelve years. 

" The firm has been fortunate in securing the services of the old time range cattle sales- 
man, Mr. Joseph Mulhall, who, for forty years has been prominently identified with the trade 
and live-stock interests of the West. Mr. Mulhall will have charge of our range cattle de- 
partment in St. Louis, and his long experience and general ability warrants us in the assur- 
ance that our range friends will find in him all the qualities so necessary to the protection of 
their interests. In 1867 he sold the first range bullock shipped to the St. Louis market; and 
with a brief exception, has been an active range cattle salesman since that time, handling as 
many cattle as any other salesman of this market. He will at all times be prepared to fur- 
nish any information or service that our customers may desire. 

" Mr. Geo. S. Taylor will assume management of the hog department of the St. Louis 
house; will also have charge of the correspondence of this office, and will always take 
pleasure in answering all inquiries and cheerfully imparting information of value to our cus- 
tomers." 

Sales correspondence and general business management will still be under the direct and 
personal supervision of the members of the firm. 

MISSISSIPPI GLASS COMPANY. 

Edward Walsh, Jr., President and Manager, St. Louis; E. W. Humphreys, Vice-President, New Yorkj 

Manutacturers of Rough-Roiled Cithedral Glass, and Ribbed Plate Glass: Factories 

and Warehouses, Main and Angelica Streets. 

The manufacture and fashioning of glass, especially the finer qualities of plate glass, has 
become quite a leading industry, employing a very large number of men and a vast amount 
of capital. 

The only establisement west of Massachusetts, however, that turns out rough and ribbed 
plate glass, crown disc and stained glass, for cathedral, church and house decorative purposes, 
is that of the Mississippi Glass Company, the subject of this historical sketch. In fact, this 
and the New England factory are the only two of the kind in the United States; and, by 
reason of the advantage of location, and the superiority of the sand and lime used here, the 
St. Louis establishment manufactures better wares, which have been well received from the 
beginning in every part of the country as far east as Boston, west to San Francisco, and 
south to the Gulf. 

From 1870, the period of its organization here and establishment, up to 1884, the com- 
pany gave its chief attention to the manufacture of hollow-ware, but last year devoted one 
factory to this new enterprise. The whole grounds of the corporation cover a space of 4<X)x 
400 feet, and embrace two factories 100x150 feet each, and several sheds and warehouses. 
Two boilers are used, and two engines of seventy-five horse-power each, and there are extra 
heavy rollers and crushers. The capacity of the works is 1,200,000 feet of glass annually, 
besides the hollow-ware of which 125,000 pieces are turned out some months. In all 250 
workmen are employed. The annual business of the company exceeds $500,000 at present, 
and under the direction of President Edward Walfeh, Jr., who is the resident manager, will 
doubtless continue to increase in even greater ratio than during the past. Vice-President 
E. W. Humphreys resides in New York City, and attends to the Eastern business of the cor- 
poration. 



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Scarcely a man, woman or child in St. Louis or its environs is without knowledge of 
Nicholson's. The name is a trade-mark that has outlasted the long and honorable life of the 
founder of the house, and promises to live for many generations in association with an estab- 
lishment everywhere famed, scarcely less for the excellence of its wares than for the magni- 
tude of its trade, and which is not only the largest in the city in the line of fancy groceries, 
but extends in the wholesale line east to Cincinnati and west to San Francisco. 

The house was founded in 1843 by Mr. David Nicholson, and at different periods occu- 
pied locations on Fourth Street and Walnut, and on Market, removing to the present lo- 
cation, a four-story building, 13 and 15 North Sixth Street, in 1870. The founder of the 
house died nearly five years ago, but his estate continued represented in the business in con- 
nection with Mr. Peter Nicholson, a nephew of the deceased, who had been admitted in 
1856 as a partner of the founder. The establishment continues to be conducted under the 
time honored name, with Peter Nicholson as managing partner. There are fifty employes, 
including five commercial travelers. 

The house is sole agent for the Anheuser Bottled Lager Beer and for Joseph Burnett & 
Co.'s extracts, manufactured at Boston, Mass. The sole agency for the United States and 
British America, for the Nicholson Liquid Bread, also rests in this house. This is a substi- 
tute for all alcoholic drinks, and is used by invalids with the most beneficial results, and as 
a stimulating beverage for nursing mothers. The preparation is commended as healthful, 
harmless and nutritious by the most eminent chemists in the United States, and is extensively 
sold throughout the country. In imported groceries, of the finest varieties, the firm is with- 
out a rival in largeness of stock and excellence of the wares, such as teas, wines, condi- 
ments, etc. Mr. Nicholson was the first merchant in St. Louis to import direct when the 
Custom House was established here, and is yet the largest importer. 

WATERS PIERCE OIL CO. 

Works Occupy the Ground between Gratiot and Austin, Twelfth and Fourteenth Streets ; Office, 600 

North Fourth Street. 

The works of this company were established in 1857 by John R. Finlay, under the name 
of The St. Louis Coal Oil Works. At that time oil was produced at these works from coal 
brought from Kentucky, under the process used in Scotland for extracting oil from shale. 
After crude petroleum was produced in quantities, these works were turned into a regular 
petroleum refinery. The crude oil for their use was brought from the oil regions in bulk on 
barges down the Ohio and up the Mississippi rivers. 

In 1869 the St. Louis Coal Oil Works were succeeded by the firm of H. C. Pierce & Cq., 
and crude petroleum for refining purposes was brought from the oil regions in cylindrical 
tank cars. 

In 1878 the firm of H. C. Pierce & Co was succeeded by the Waters Pierce Oil Com- 
pany. This company now supply all the country west of the Mississippi river south of St. 
Louis, including the entire republic of Mexico. It has branch houses and agents at every 
railroad point in the territory above named. Shipments are made in car load lots and de- 
livered from depots in quantities to suit the trade. By this means handlers and consumers of 
petroleum and its products are able to buy from first hands in quantities and in perfect con- 
dition, at their own point of business. 

A pipe line underneath the river conveys the oil from the East St. Louis works of the 
company to the St. Louis (city) side. 



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G. W. CHADBOURNE & CO. 

The St. Louis Shot Tower Co. ; also Cominission Merchants : loo Ncrth Main frtreet. 

The senior member of this firm, Mr. G. W. Chadbourne, has been m the shot manu- 
facture since 1847, and in the commision line since 1S57, in which year also the Shot Tower 
Company was incorporated. He has been the president of the stock company ever since, 
holding that office at the present time. Mr. E. S. Walton is his partner in the commision 
house at 100 North Main Street. 




The Shot Tower Company employs about thirty-five men, who, assisted by improved ma- 
chinery, turn out a product which largely supplies the Southern and Southwestern sections. 
The vicinity of the mines gives to St. Louis advantages over rival manufacturers, so that the 
product of this city is not only the best but the cheapest, and is so regarded wherever the St. 
Louis Tower Co.'s wares have been introduced. Messrs. Chadbourne & Walton will lie 
found by intending purchasers to be agreeable, accommodating and honorable business men, 
who transpct their business upon modern business methods, and keep up to the times. 

C)n this page is a view of the tower and works of the company. At full limit their out- 
put is twenty-live tons per day. The tower is 186 feet high — more than the tallest steejile in the 
city. Its diameter at the base is thirty-one feet, at the topi seventeen feet, and its casting 
floor is 176 feet from the water tank. As may be seen by the illustration, it is of brick, and 
is one of the most striking of the city's industrial monuments. 

Besides shot, bar lead and "temper " are manufactured by these \\-orks. For the con- 
venience of those who want lead in smaller conijiass than jug, bar lead is cast by it in H\-e 
ounce ])ars, and is sacked in twenty-live pound bags. 



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SCHULENBURG & BOECKELER LUMBER CO. 

A. Boeckler, President; E. L. Hospes, Vice-President; Chas. W. Behrens, Secretary ; I^. C. Hirsch 
berg, Treasurer: Office and Planing Mill Southwest Corner Tenth and Mullanohy Streets; 
River Yards, North Market and Harrison Streets; Saw Mills, St. Louis Avenue, 
in St. Louis, and Stillwater, Minn. 

A narrative of energy, perseverance and success is contained in the history of this com- 
pany. It dates back to i844,when Messrs. Schulenburg & Boeckeler entered the lumber bus- 
iness in St. Louis with but limited capital, reinforced however by a determination to succeed. 
The logical result was the securing of so large a share of trade that ten years later, feeling 
the need of increased facilities, they erected large saw mills in the dense white pine forests 
contiguous to Stillwater, Minn, and other improvements and facilities as the needs of a still 
increasing trade seemed to demand. 

In 1880 was incorporated the Schulenburg & Boeckeler Lumber Co., with a working cap- 
ital of $500,000, and the following officers, who still serve in that capacity : President, A. 
Boeckeler; Vice-President, E. L. Hospes; Secretary, Chas. W. Behrens; and Treasurer, L. 
C. Hirschberg. An approximate idea of the vast extent of the interests of the company may 
be gained from knowledge of the fact that their yards in this city alone, in the aggregate, 
cover over thirty acres of ground. The river yards between North Market and Harrison 
Streets, include a large storing of lumber and every facihty for handling the same. Their 
planing mills at Tenth and Mullanphy Streets cover 270x300 feet of space, and two blocks 
west is a space 300x300 feet for storing Southern lumber, which they manufacture for the trade. 
The saw mflls here, at the foot of St. Louis Avenue, and at Stillwater are supplied with 
the most modern improved machinery. They send lumber all over the Union, and their pro- 
duct is counted by millions. Thus their annual sales of lumber aggregate over 50,000,000 
feet; of shingles 30,000,000, and of lath over 15,000,000; the entire annual product being 
valued at $1,250,000. Of the employes of the company, who number over 1,000, nearly 
half work in St. Louis; about 400 in the mills in Stillwater, and 200 on the river. Speaking 
somewhat more in detail, it may be said that they supply the trade with well assorted and 
classified seasoned lumber in the rough, or dressed and matched; also shingles, lath, cedar 
posts, sash, doors, blinds, etc., in endless variety. 

Of the officers of the company, their success for forty years is the best criterion to 
judge by. President A. Boeckeler is a director of the German Savings Institution. E. L. 
Hospes, the Vice-President, resides in Stillwater, Minn., and cares for the interests of the 
company at that point. He is also a director in the Mississippi River Logging Company, 
operating on the Chippewa river, and is connected with several other business enterprises 
North. Mr. Chas. W. Behrens, the Secretary, is President of the St. Louis Manufacturing 
Company, and a director therein. 

THE INLAND OIL COMPANY. 

Cincinnati Manufacturers of Railway, Mining and Machinery Oils, Tallow, Greases, etc. : George W. 
Gunnison, Manager St. Louis Branch: 411 North Third Street. 

The St. Louis branch of the Inland Oil Company of Cincinnati, has nearly as much 
importance in the oil markets of the West as the parent establishment. Its immense trade 
with Denver and the mountain mining districts, together with its most excellent railroad pat- 
ronage throughout the Northwest and Southwest has been largely developed in recent years.' 
The factory here has constant employment for thirty-five men. The bulk of the shipments 
from hence are by barrel in car load lots, but for the mountain traffic case packages are the 
rule, that being the handier method for those sections. 

The home concern was established in Cincinnati about the year 1865, by the firm of A. 
Gunnison & Co. Incorporation was resorted to, to expedite affairs in 1879, with A. Gunnison 
as President; R. T. Miller, Vice-President; and G. W. Hamilton, Secretary and Treasurer. 
The rapid growth of the trade from St. Louis is largely due to the management and business 
tact of G. W. Gunnison, who will impart any information concerning prices, etc., and who will 
be pleased to treat with oil customers in any part of the West, South, North and Northwest. 
Shipments can be mr.de direct from the company's West Virginia wells, from Cincinnati, or 
from St. Louis, as may be most convenient for the purchaser. The Inland Company's 
"Tropic Cylinder Oil " is a rich, fatty, non-acid, twenty-four degree specific gravity, and 650 
degree fire test oil. Its " Lone Star " family safety oil is one of the most popular of illumi- 
nating brands. To the company's " Polar Grease No. i " trial orders are invited and satis- 
faction is guaranteed. They manufacture also all kinds of illuminating and lubricating oils, 
greases and tallows, etc., etc., for railway, mining and machinery uses, and their trade is with 
the largest railroads and mining companies, and dealers generally. All communications di- 
rected to their office will receive prompt and courteous attention. 



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R. L. ROSEBROUGH SONS. 

Marble and Granite Works; 1926 to 1932 Olive Street. 

This largest house of its kind in St. Louis and in the West has a history quite interest- 
ing from a trade standpoint, and instructive as weU. The old fashioned idea that this in- 
dustry required merely old sheds in which to operate, and that the visitor must pick his way 
over chipped stone and other obstructions in order to reach the workman or to view his handi- 
work is here shown to be fallacious, and the massive and magnificient establishment of R. L. 
Rosebrough Sons is not only in its exterior an architectural monument and an ornament to a 
leading thoroughfare, but in its interior arrangement is as neat, artistic, and beautiful as one 
of our dry goods establishments or a studio devoted to exhibition of art. The accompanying 
illustration of the office salesrooms and manufacturing department is accurate. It is needed 
only to add that the space covered is 73x109 feet, and from forty to fifty designei-s, draughts- 
men and other skilled workmen are constantly employed. 




The house was founded in 185S by the late R. L. Rosebrough and liis son J. W. Rose- 
brough. The old shop on Broadway was but 35x15 feet, with walls nine feet high. 
How different from the establishment now, and for two years past, occupied by the firm! In 
1866, the senior Rosebrough died, and the son, J. W. Rosebrough, and his sons, now 
compose the firm. Since 185S, when the elder came from Illinois, though originally hailing 
from Kentucky, the Rosebroughs have been in no other business, and they have so developed 
it that they fill orders for cemetery work from all parts of Missouri and South, not only to the 
Gulf but beyond it, for they also do business in the city of Mexico. Exclusive attention is 
given to cemetery work, and they cut more inscriptions'than all other houses in their line in St. 
Louis combined. Of their wares it is only necessary to say that the best of Italian and 
American marble and the Westerly granite — the very best quality of that enduring stone — 
are cut and fashioned most artistically. The range of designs is wide, and the same is 
true of prices, for the house can supply the most elaborate mausoleums, monuments, or the 
humblest headstone, according to the desire and means of the purchases. 

The house, too, is in a special sense a St. Louis institution, and not merely a resident 
agency of eastern establishments, as many places of the kind are in western cities. An ex- 
amination of the choicest works of memorial art in Bellefontaine, Calvary and other ceme- 
teries that adorn and beautify the environs of St. Louis, will disclose that much of the finest 
work emanates from the establishment of R. L. Rosebrough Sons. 



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THE SOUTHERN WIRE COMPANY. 

J. "W. C;:ites, President.; Wni. Edenborn, Vice-President ; C. H. Rowe, Secretary; A. Clifford, Treas- 
urer; Manufacturers of Steel Barbed Fence Wire, Plain Wire of all kind<!, Staples, etc. ; 
Office and Salesroom, S05 North Second Street; Factory, 
Twenty-First and Papin Street. 

In December last, the old Southern Barbed Wire Company and the Missouri Barbed 
Fence Company consolidated under the name heading this paragraph. That combination is 
of sufficient importance in an industrial way for conspicuous mention in a publication like this, 
which is intended to describe the leading enterprises of St. Louis in 1S85. The authorized 
capital of the consolidated Southern Company is $50,000, which is all paid in, besides about 
$200,000 more employed in the business; heavy sums, but indications of extensive transac- 
tions, which impression is verified by a view of the company's works, situated on Papin Street 
near the line of the Missouri Pacific Railway. Something like 450 men are employed therein. 
This company's trade lies mostly to the westward of the Mississippi river. 



THE WM. BARR DRY GOODS CO. 

Wm. liarr. President; Joseph Franklin, Vice-President and General Manager; Geo. M. Wright, Sec- 
retary : Dealers in Dry Goods, Furnishing Goods, Coots and Shoes, Housekeeping Goods, etc. : 
Sixth, Olive and Locust Streets. Established, 1S49. 

vSt. Louis is entitled to the pre-eminence of having the largest retail dry goods store in 
America, in the establishment of the Wm. Barr Dry Goods Company. Originally founded in 

1849, under the 
name of H.D.Cun- 
ingham & Co., Mr. 
Wm.Barr being the 
junior of the firm, 
the house, five years 
later, became Barr, 
Duncan & Co., 
Messrs. Franklin 
and Berkin of the 
present company 
being connected 
with it. In 1S68 it 
became Wm. Ban 
& Co., and so re- 
mained up to 1873, 
when it became a 
corporation under 

the name of the Wm. Barr Dry GoocU v ompany; the stockODldtri -. being Wm. Barr, the 
President; Joseph Franklin, Vice-President and Geneial Manager; and C. H. Berkin. The 
capital stock of the company has been $800,000, but from the surplus accumulated earnings 
was recently increased to $900,000. The aggregate trade of the corporation, which extends 
to all sections, is somewhat in excess of $2,000,000 a year. 

The original store was on Fourth and Olive Streets; later, on Fourth Street between 
Vine and St. Charles; and in 18S0, the establishment removed to the magnificient building 
erected especially for the company, on Sixth, Olive and Locust Streets. This mammoth stone 
front, four-story and basement edifice is believed to be the best appointed, as well as the 
largest store of the kind in the United States — covering 230 feet front on Sixth Street, by 
140 on Olive, and 130 on Locust, the building is most eligibly and conveniently located. A 
fifty horse power engine is used, with two passenger and one freight elevator, and the 
dynamo machinery and apparatus used in connection with a perfected system of electric light- 
ing are very extensive and complete. The business is divided into thirty-two departments, 
such as silks, dress goods, millinery, dress-making, house furnishing, underwear, shoes, etc., 
and in all about four hundred salesmen, salesladies and others are employed in St. Louis. 

The company has an Eastern office in New York, in which city President Wm. Barr re- 
sides. This especially facilitates direct importations and Eastern purchases. Mr. Berkin 
also resides East, at Newark, N. J., but has not taken active part in the business for some 
years. The entire management therefore devolves upon Mr. Franklin, the Vice-President 
and General Manager in St. Louis; but being possessed of executive and administrative 
ability of the highest order, he is able to supervise, without apparent effort, every detail of the 
business. The system which obtains in the conduct of the store is marvelous in its per- 




70 THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 

fection. A country order department and the speedy checking systenj practiced in the store 
may be cited as eXainples. The country order department has proven so satisfactory to pur- 
chasers from the interior, who order by mail, that it COhstantly increases in extent of territory 
and in the pecuniary volume of the transactions. The house also has its own printing de- 
partment, and advertises largely. Mr. Franklin is a director in the State Savings Bank and 
is prominently identified with a variety of public enterprises. He was among the foremast 
in the grand street illumination last year, and the Barr Dry Goods Company's display Was a 
nwgnificient exhibit at the Exposition. Visitors to St. Louis regard the store as one of the 
leading attractions of the city and are courteously permitted an inspection of it. 

THE ANCHOR LINE. 

St. Louis to Vicksburg and to New Orleans ; John A. Scudder, President; Theo. C. Zeigler, Secretary; 

Isaac M. Mason, Superintendent; John W. Carroll, Freight Agent: Office on the Wliarfboat, 

Foot of Chestnut Street. 

The thoroughness of the Mississippi river steamboat service is proverbial. Speedier rail 
routes have absorbed some of their patronage, but the elegance, comfort and complete facili- 
ties of the river packets still attracts its fair share of the passenger traffic. The steamboat 
business is not less prosperous than of old, and the five magnificent craft of the St. Louis and 
New Orleans Anchor Line are still the model river boats of the world. Says an account 
which was published of them sometime since: "The highest point of progress in inland nav- 
igation has been reached, and is illustrated in such boats as the 'City of St. Louis,' the 
'City of Baton Rouge,' and others of their class. The speed, safety, economy and accom- 
modations, both for freight and passenger transportation, of these boats is unrivaled. Rail- 
roads have their uses, but no such comfort, or luxury rather, is possible upon the rail as is 
furnished by these floating palaces of the great waterway." 

The Anchor Line Company has twelve steamboats running regularly on the Mississippi, 
and three relief boats — five between here and New Orleans, six between St. Louis and 
Vicksburg, and one from St. Louis to Grand Tower, III. The following run to New Orleans: 
The new "City of Natchez," built by the famous Louisville builders, the Howards, put in 
service in May last, and proven by the trips already made the finest boat now on the river. 
Her commander is the Mississippi celebrity, Capt. Horace Bixby, who was Mark Twain's 
tutor in river lore, and who is credited with having furnished the renowned humorist with ma- 
terial for some of his best tales. The great author is said to have made a trip with Bixby, just 
before writing his last book, in order to revive recollection of old times on the Mississippi. 

The "City of St. Louis," Capt. Dan Able, a veteran of the river service; the " City of 
Baton Rouge," with I. H. McKee in command; the "City of New Orleans," Capt. A. J. 
Carter; and the "City of Bayou Sara," Capt. Wm. Baker, are the other four. These com- 
manders are reckoned as the most experienced and expert navigators of the river. 

Between here and Vicksburg the company has running: the " Belle of Memphis," Capt. 
Geo. Baker; the " City of Cairo," Capt. A. S. Lightner; the "City of Vicksburg," Capt. 
Harry Keith; the "City of Providence," Capt. Geo. Carvelle; the "Arkansas City," Capt. 
Henry Brolaski; and the "Commonwealth," Capt. Geo. Vickers. The Grand Tower packet 
is the " E. C. Elliott," Capt. Geo. W Lennox. 

The Anchor is the only passenger line running South now. It is the largest freight and 
passenger line on the river. The company is a consolidation of the St. Louis and Vicksburg 
Anchor Line and the St. Louis and New Orleans Anchor Line, which consolidation was 
effected in July of 1883, with John P. Reiser as President. The officers at present are: John 
A. Scudder, President; Theo. C. Zeigler, Secretary; Isaac M. Mason, Superintendent; John 
W. Carroll, Freight Agent. Mr. Scudder was president of the two lines before the consoli- 
dation, with the exception of a year spent by him abroad. Superintendent Mason has held 
that office since January last. He was formerly Sheriff of St. Louis. Mr. Zeigler has been 
with this line since its establishment; he has been eighteen years altogether in the steamboat 
business. Capt. Carroll is an old steamboatman; he has bee . agent for different companies 
running out of St. Louis, and has been with the Anchor Line since it was first organized. 

Boats of the Anchor Line leave St. Louis for St. Joseph, Rodney, Waterproof, Natchez, 
Bayou Sara, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans, Wednesdays and Saturdays at five o'clock 
p. M. For Cape Girardeau, Cairo, Memphis, Helena, Greenville, Arkansas City, and 
Vicksburg, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at five. The " Elliott" for St Genevieve, St. 
Mary's, Chester, Wittenburg and Grand Tower, every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. The 
New Orleans line makes connection on the passage at Arkansas City with L. R., M. R. & T. 
R'y for Pine Bluff, Little Rock and Hot Springs, Ark.; Memphis, with M. & C. R. R. and 
Louisville roads for Eastern points ; Cairo, with Illinois Central. Through and round trip 
tickets and freight rates are given at all points tributary. 

The Anchor line agents are Cairo, Thos. W. Shields; Memphis, Tenn., Adrience Storm; 
Vicksburg, Miss., E. C. Carroll; New Orleans, La., J. B. Woods. The scale upon which 
this line is operated, may be imag'ned from the fact that each boat has about sixty hands. 



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THE HYDRAULIC PRESS BRICK CO. 

>:. l:. Sterlin;,^, President ; H. W. liliot, Secretary and Treasurer; Office, Turner Building, 304 Xorth 

P^ighth Street. 

Tliis company, recognized as the largest manufacturer in its V.nc in tlie United States, by 
a product nearly twice as great as that of any company outside of St. Louis, was incorporated 
in 1S6S, but the business had been established some two years before that time, and was run 
by the Sterlings, one of whom is now President of the company. The capital stock of this 
company is $600,000. The territory in yards and clay banks owned by it amounts to about 
125 acres of ground. The annual business is between $600,000 and $750,000. The em- 
ployes at some seasons will number 600. The output varies according to the times, but may 




be put at 60,000,000 common and 10,000,000 pressed brick per month. Of the common 
brick the entire product is used in this city and its vicinity. Of the finer and ornamental 
grades the larger part is shipped thoughout the Western country from Canada to Texas, where 
it is much in vogue. 

This company manufactures molded and ornamental bricks by its own processes in great 
variety. Some sixty or seventy styles can be furnished at any time. The cost of this mater- 
ial is so reasonable as to make this style of architecture the fashion at present. Tliis com- 
pany also controls the Union Press Brick Works, this and the Hydraulic Company being 
practically operated as one. The caiiital stock of this company is $200,000. Its output is 
about 20,000,000 brick a year. E. C. Sterling is the President; G. W. Simpkins, Secretary 
and Treasurer. This brief sketch, with the accompanying illustration, gives a fair idea of 
the resources and facilities that this concern has to sup]5ly the building trade of the West. 

The illustration gives the reader a good idea of the artistic appearance of this material 
when used for household decorative purposes. It is at once artistic and in the largest 
sense possesses a utility rare in ornamental work ; and especial superiority over non-fire- 
proof material, which so often adds to the destructiveness of fire in private residences. 



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THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 



THE E. M. SAMUEL & SONS COMMISSION CO. 

Weh. M. Samuel President; E. E Samuel, Secretary and Treasurer; Rooms, 25 and 26 Gay Building. 

Third and Pine Streets. 

The E. M. Samuel & Sons Commission Company succeeded by incorporation to the Inis- 
iness of the house of E. M. Samuel & Sons in March last. The old house had been in ex- 
istence for twenty years, E. M. Samuel, father of the principals in the company, having been 
its founder. He has been dead a numl-)er of years, but the house has been a power and an 
influence in this market ever since its foundation and to the very date of this narrative. 

The house is a strong one. It has capital and resources, and a patronage which is the 
growth of years, the East, South, the West, and a particularly fine local traffic contributing to 
its transactions. It is a house which buys and sells and ships on its own account as well as 
on commission, and which does also a heavy option business. Mr. Web. M. Samuel, Presi- 
dent of the company, has been Director, Vice-President, and President of the Exchange, and 
is an authority upon speculative and grain matters. The Samuels are all natives of Clay 
County, Mo., and were bred to this line from their youth. 

BEMIS BRO. BAG COMPANY. 

J, M. Bemis, President ; Stephen A. Bcmi;, Secretary; Bag Manufacturers : 104, 106, 108 and no North 

Main Street. 

This pretty trade mark is that of the Bemis Bro. Bag Company, which was incorporated in 
May last as succe^^sors to Bemis Bro. & Company. The house was first established in 1S5S 
,,, '" / », , by Bemis & Brown. Bemis Bro. & Co. 

succeeded that firm. The Bemis Bro. Bag 

Co. has houses in Boston, Minneapolis and 

St. Louis, from which fact an estimate of 

its business may be obtained. It is one of 

u,^ the oldest in its line, having been one of 

^1 the earliest here to go into bags exclu- 

^"' sively. On June 9th last, the house issued 

the following addresses: "To our 

Friends : 

"We have the pleasure of announcing 
that in order to further improve the facili- 
ties for conducting our largely increased 
business, the members of the firm of 
Bemis Bro. & Co. have incorporated under 
'""' ' • - ' ' the style of Bemis Bro. Bag Co. 

"Thanking you for the many favors leceived during the past twenty-seven years, we solicit 
their continuance, and shall endeavor to merit a still greater number, by the improved service 
now offered. Yours very truly, Bemis Bro. Bag Co." 




THE MARINE INSURANCE CO. 

James A. Bartlett, President; John T. Davis, Vice-President; Samuel G. Kennedy, Secretary : Char- 
tered 1S37; Fire and Marine Insurance: 321 North Third Street. 

Age is a valuable asset in an insurance company. It indicates stability; fur an institu- 
tion that has weathered the storms of the sea of commerce for nearly half a century is cer- 
tainly rock-rooted and mountain-buttressed. The oldest company of its character in this 
city is the Marine Insurance Company of St. Louis, which was chartered in 1837, and has 
ever since done an extensive business in fire and marine underwriting. Chartered under the 
same name in that early period of insurance history, it first had a capital of $300,000, 
half paid up, but in a few years the unpaid portion was remitted to the stockholders and the 
capital fixed at $200,000, all paid up, at which figure it remains. In 1849 the company was 
burned out of its old home, and lost its earlier records, but those of date since 1850 show an 
increase yearly in the business done, not only in the city where the company chiefly operates, 
but in Chicago and other cities where branch offices are maintained. The forty-eighth an- 
nual statement shows the company on January 1st, 1885, to have had a surplus, as regards 
policy holders, of $236,800. The assets aggregate $261,596.20, including $181,600 in stocks 
and bonds, and the liabilities were merely nominal. 

The officers of the company are old and well-known business men of St. Louis, and cap- 
italists. President Bartlett is also a director in the Continental Bank, and Vice-President John 



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T. Davis is a member of the well-known and leading wholesale diy goods house of Samuel 
C. Davis & Co. Secretary Samuel G. Kennedy is an expert underwriter and very popular in 
insurance circles. The instalment department, in charge of Manager B. C. Barnum, is a 
progressive feature, and confined entirely to the insurance of farm property, private dwellings 
in towns, churches, schools, etc. The directors and stockholders of the company are among 
the most opulent of our business men, and the executive officers are enterprising and exper- 
ienced. 

The directors of this company are: C. S. Greeley, of Greeley-Burnham Grocery Co. ; 
R. P. Hanenkamp, of R. P. Hanenkamp & Co.; John T. Davis, of Samuel C. Davis & Co.; 
H. W. Hough; Jas. A. Bartlett; W. H. Chick, Vice-President of Bank of Kansas City; 
Hugh Rogers, of Hugh Rogers & Co.; Conrad P^ath, of Fath, Ewald & Co.; A. O. Grubb, 
of Cole Bros. Commission Co.; E. C. Meacham, of E. C. Meacham Arms Co.; Geo. S. 
Edged, of St. Louis Bolt & Iron Co.; Joseph W. Goddard, of tloddard. Peck l\: Co.; and 
Samuel G. Kennedy. 

PHILLIPS, WOOLMAN & TODD. 

Manufacturers and Jobbers of Boots and Shoes ; 614 Locust Street. 

In its present form, this house has had an existence dating only from the beginning 
of the current year, but each of the members of the firm has been connected with the West- 
ern boot and shoe trade, and with the leather 
interest in general for several years. The 
senior of the new firm, John Phillips, was, for 
ten years, of the house of Phillips, Grant & 
Co., shoe manufacturers here. Mr. J. H. S. 
Woolman was for years the senior of the firm 
bearing his name, that operated the Rock 
Springs Tannery; and Mr. G. W. Todd was 
for three years connected with the house of 
Todd, French & Co. in the same line, and 
prior to that with Claflin, Thayer & Co. 

With their extended experience in the 
trade, the members of the new firm have every 
prospect of doing a large and profitable busi- 
ness; indeed, their trade thus far this year 
has been a highly successful one. They con- 
trol exclusively a very com]:)lete and popular 
line of ladies' and misses' sew ed shoes manu- 
factured in St. Louis, and em]iloy a corps of 
six traveling salesmen, who are already visiting 
patrons with samples of fall wear and send- 
ing in numerous and large orders. In the large development of the Western shoe trade cen- 
tering in St. Louis, Phillips, Woolman & Todd share largely. 

WHEELER, JAMES & CO. 

Live Stock Commission Merchants : Union Stock Yards. 

Messrs. R. T. Wheeler, C. James and J. S. McKinnon have been associated together as 
the firm of Wheeler, James & Co., for the sale of live stock on commision, since 1S82. Mr. 
Wheeler will be remembered by those in the trade as formerly one of the firm of Cash, Stew- 
art & Co. in the same line of business. Mr. James was, before this partnership, with Dug- 
dale & Co. He is an old trader and cattle man, who came here long ago from St. Charles 
County. Mr. McKinnon has been a buyer and shijjper of stock to Eastern markets for years. 

Mr. James is the cattle and sheep man of the firm. Mr. Wheeler attends to the hog 
sales, and Mr. McKinnon looks after the outside affairs generally, besides supervising the 
office work. 

This firm handles about 500 car loads of stock monthly. They receive from all quarters, 
but mostly from the Northwest and Southwest. The bulk of the sales made by them are for 
city use. Most of their Eastern shipments are of hogs and sheen. They sell more hogs 
than other stock. The business of the firm may better be estimated when it is understood 
that the five or six hundred car loads of stock per month j^assing through this firm's handsis, 
really, of cattle, eighteen or twenty to the car, value about $600; sheep, ninety to one hun- 
dred, same; hogs, sixty to seventy, $450 to $500. The gross sales of each are about equal 
in value. 

The amount of this firm's business shows how it is esteemed by shippers. 




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THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 



THE GUERNSEY FURNITURE CO. 

D. \V. (Juernsey, President; Cyrus Jones, Vice-President ; C. R. Sciuider, Secretary and Treasurer: 

Manufacturers of Parlor, Bedroom and Dining-room Sets, Odd Pieces, etc. : 504 to ^oS 

Locust Street; 321 to 323 North Third Street. 

Tlie (Jucrnsey Furniture Company occupies one of the handsomest and must noticeable 
buildings in the business section of St. Louis, in this' respect displaying those characteristics 

-: J ill ;:;!:: : ;;;,;,, that have made the 

house one of the first 
rank in this vicinity. 
This estal)lishment \\as 
founded in 1S78 by the 
firm of Guernsey, Jones 
& Co., to whom the 
stock company is suc- 
cessor. Thenewprem- 
ises have been occupied 
liy the house since 
November of 1SS3, and 
the incorporation dates 
from 18S1. The prem- 
ises, besides being 
striking from an archi- 
tectural point of view, 
are also spacious, the 
six floors and finished 
basement having a sur- 
face area of 43,000 
square feet. 

The Guernsey Fur- 
niture Company does 
business ujion methods 
of its own. It sup- 
plies consumers direct, 
making no sales to 

dealers. The advantage this plan is to purchasers can readily be seen. It employs no trav- 
elers, l)ut maintains connection with its patrons by means of catalogues, 5,500 of which have 
been distributed by it throughout the United States in the ])ast six years. Its 4,200 customers 
live in nineteen States of the Union. A specialty is made by it of the furnishing of the 
houses of wealthy patrons who can be suited by the Guernsey Furniture Company lietter than 
by any other concern here located, because particular attention is given that line of trade. 
Amongst the many fine houses which have been furnished by it throughout this section, the 
following are notable: The Executive Mansion at Jefferson City ; the Lindell Hotel (refur- 
nished); the Planters; the addition to the St. James; the grand residence of Mrs. Strawn, 
at Jacksonville, 111.; and the Randolph mansion, Decatur, 111. 

The Guernsey Furnitnre Company handles also the full line of office furniture, suitable 
for doctors, lawyers, etc. Many of its goods are made from Boston designs, and are of East- 
ern manufacture. Mr. Guernsey, the President of the furniture company, is also Vice-Presi- 
dent and Manager of the Guernsey & Scudder Electric Light Company of St. Louis, and is be- 
sides a stockholder in the Mather and Guernsey Cattle Com]')any of Wyoming Territory. 
Mr. Jones, Vice-President, has lived here about ten years. Fie is one of the firm of TBryan, 
Son & Jones, oil merchants. Secretary Scudder also has an interest in the Guernsey-Scud- 
der Light Company. The Guernsey & Scudder Electric Light Company is a new corporation, 
but one that is making excellent headway. Its plant is upon the same premises with the 
Guernsey furniture establishment, and many of the neighboring business houses have availed 
themselves of the op]iortunity to obtain cheap light, by connecting with its apparatus. Mr. 
Scudder is its President; Mr. Guernsey, Vice-President and Manager; and Mr. Clarence 
Parker, Secretary and Treasurer. This company has attained to distinction in the trade by 
adopting modern principles of doing business, and it has been successful because it has ap- 
plied to the conduct of its affairs, speed, spirit, and thrift as well as capital and resources. 

The stained glass windows and terra cotta ornamentati<jn of the Locust Street front of 
the Guernsey building indicate the artistic tastes of the principals in the company. And in 
this respect the edifice is in harmony with the industry conducted within its walls. Some 
idea may be got from the illustration on this page what its merits are, tht)Ugh at best but a 
faint one, because the size of this page is inadeqttate to a fairer representation of these 
striking features. 




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CHEROKEE BREWING CO. 

F. Herold, President and Treasurer; Theo. Ilerold, Jr., Secretary; Jacob Lochs, Superintendenf 

Brewers of the Renowned " Herold's Superior" Bottled Lager Beer: Brewery 

Cherokee Street and Iowa Avenue; Branch Office and Depot, 

413 and 415 Chestnnt Street, 

This enterprise established itself in St. Louis in 1867, under the name of the Herold & 
Loebs Brewing Company, the parties in interest being F. Herold and Geo. Loebs. But in 
1883 Mr. Herold bought out his associate and incorporated under the present name, his son, 

Theo. Herold, Jr., becoming a stockholder and 
secretary of the new corporation, and Mr. Jacob 
Loebs, who was also given some stock, the super- 
intendent of the brewery. Mr. F. Herold, the 
President, retains the chief interest. 

The brewery and other buildings cover an en- 
tire block; the main building being 200x175 ^^^t, 
and two stories high. In addition to threeboilers 
and engines, having a total of an hundred horse 
power, there is machinery of modern adaptation 
connected with the bottling department. Forty to 
hfty hands are constantly employed. The renowned 
" Herold's Superior" bottled lager beer, ale and 
porter in casks is the product of this brewery; but 
the company a few months since l)egan bottling and 
also manufacturing ale and porter, and half-and- 
half, and has already developed that specialty to a 
surprising extent. In all, the company bottles 
three to four hundred dozen a day, and is the only 
establishment of the kind west of Chicago. Ten 
to twelve wagons and forty horses are daily em- 
ployed in delivering the product in the city. The 
celebrated Herold Malt Extract is here manu- 
factured for the Richardson Drug Co., sole 
agents for the same in the United States and 
Canada. Two additional large ice machines are 
being erected at the brewery, which has three 
comm odious cellars forty-live feet under ground. 
Before coming to St. Louis and buying the 
brewery, President Herold was engaged in the grocery business at Mascoutah, Illinois. 
His enterprise has been shown in enlarging the brewery and its product; and in this effort he 
has been ably seconded by his active and energetic son, the secretary of the company. 

DEHNER-W^UERPEL MILL BUILDING CO. 

A. Dchner, President; E. Wuerpel, Secretary; Manufacturers of Shafting-, Gearing, and General 
Machinery; Importers ot and Dealers in Belting Cloth, Belting. Erect and 
1^'urnish Flour Mills, Elevators, Breweries, Malt Hou'^es, 
etc., etc.: 161 1 to 1617 South Third Street. 

In narrating the history of manufacturing enterprises, with their extensive machinery and 
apparatus, it is well to note the business career of those who make the machinery, in all its 
adaptability and application to manufacturing industries. "You observe," said a New En- 
gland manufacturer to Thackeray upon the occasion of the great writer's visit to America 
"you see how perfectly we work this machinery, how smoothly the looms run. It's the tri- 
umph of genuis." _" Say, rather," rejoined the observant visitor, " that the machinery itself 
is a triumph of genius. The man who made this motive power and gearing and pulleys is 
rather to be honored than he who merely puts in practical operation the devfces of another " 
And so it is. 

Many of the flour mills and other manufacturing enterprises in this city and tributary ter- 
ritory have been supplied with machinery by the Dehner-Wuerpel Mill Buildino- Company a 
very successful corporation having extensive works, 50x125 feet, antl three stijries hit^h 'at 
161 1 to 161 7 South Third Street. The establishment was founded in 1875, by Mr. A. Dehn'er 
a practical mill-wright, and a couple of years later it was incorporated under the above name' 
xVIr. Dehner becoming P.esident; and E. Wuerpel, Secretary; the latter beincr also a prac- 
tical mill-wright. An average of from fifty to seventy-live skilled hands are'employed, and 




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a majority of these are sent out from time to time to put in shafting, gearing and general ma- 
chinery, inchiding storage and platform elevators, mill and brewery equipments, etc. The 
company also imports and deals in bolting cloth, belting and the like, furnishes plans and 
contracts for erection or repair, or alteration of mills, factories and works in general. The 
supplying of flour mills with Charles Huber's bolting system is made a specialty. The prin- 
cipal mills, breweries and malt houses in St. Louis and tributary cities and towns have been 
fitted with machinery by this company, but its work is not limited to any special locality or 
section, its reputation for thorough and durable work being such as to encourage orders from 
a c(msiderable distance at times. Indeed, St. Louis, through this company, has acquired 
quite an extended reputation for mill furnishing, and the building of machinery is rapidly 
growing into a vast and important industry in this trade centre. 

THE REMINGTON STANDARD TYPE-WRITER. 

A\'vckoff, Se;imans & Benedict, Sole Agents : ;icS North Six'th Street. 
Every manuscript page of Printer's copy for this book was run off on the Remington 
type-writer. That instrument is rapidly supplanting many of the ancient methods of book- 
making. It has been sold in this market for about ten years and has stood the test of time. 

The Fairbanks Scale Company were for a time the agents 
here for it, but the agencies in the different cities of .the coun- 
try are now managed by the lirm named in the headlines ti> 
this account. Mr. Fred. Sholes is manager for them here. 
The house here has charge of the district included in Missouri, 
Southern Illinois, Arkansas and Kansas. 

The Remington type-writer is manufactured by E. Rem- 
ington & Sons, at the Remington Rifle Works, Ilion, N. \'. 
The Remington Standard has now been before the public over 
ten years; it has been subjected to every conceivable test; some of the machines soKl over 
ten years ago are still in use and doing good service, and where\'er it has been tried as an 
experiment, it has been retained as a necessity. 

A volume greater than this could be filled with indorsements by St. Louis patrons of the 
Remington. Several firms here are now using as many as twenty of these machines, after 
having given other machines a trial and found them unfitted for rapid and reliable work. It 
will pay any one who has much writing to do to investigate the Standard type-writer, a ma- 
chine that absolutely takes the place of the pen, doing all that can l)e done in- it, and in one- 
third the time. 

THE COLLINS BROTHERS DRUG COMPANY. 

\V. H. t'ollins, President; Lewis K. Collins, Vice-President ; S. R. Nelson, Secrel:ir\ ; \\h.iles:ile 
Druggists and Manufacturers of Proprietary Medicines; 420,422,423, 

424 and 425 North Second Street. ' 

Estaljlished in 1845, this is now the oldest drug house in St. Louis. The amount of it.^ 
annual sales, about $1,000,000, shows it also to be one of the largest. The original founders 
still survive in the management, and still conduct it, although a change of its designation has 
been made by incorporation, on the same enduring and approved mercantile principles, thrift, 
energy and progressiveness, that develo]3ed out of a small and insignificant beginning, a 
strong, a staljle, and a respected house, respected as much for its fair, open and square meth- 
oils as for its capital and resources. 

This house makes a specialty of the proprietary medicine line as well as general drugs, 
manufacturing largely some of the most popular remedies sold in this country. Amongst these 
are Dr. Jackson's Root and Herb Cordial, Ur. Jackson's Penetrating Liniment, Dr. Jackson's 
Liver Pills, Dr. Jackson's Worm Syrup, Dr. Jackson's Wild Cherry and Lungwort, Dr. Jack- 
son's Blood and Humor Syrup, Dr. Jackson's Eye Salve, and that most efficacious medicine 
which has a greater sale than any other intended to effect the same purpose, and which has an 
almost world-wide popularity and reputation, Collins' Ague Cure. Dealers are allowed sixty 
days, five per cent, off for cash in thirty days, and freight on assorted lots of $200 worth of 
these medicines. 

This company occupies buildings on opposite sides of North Second Street, at the num- 
bers given above. As an illustration of the extent of the industry which Collins Bros, con- 
trol, it may incidentally be mentioned that they have employed 100 men, whose aggregate sal- 
aries are probably $1,000 per week. In recent years concerns of this nature have multiplied, 
and many nostrums are soil, that if not absolutely injurious, are ]Tositively valueless. The 
fact that Collins Bros, prejiarations are standard with jiractitioners is sufficient to remark as to 
their merits. 



THE INDUSTRJES OF ST. LOUIS. 7/ 

A. KRIECKHAUS & CO. 

Dealers in Hides and Tallow, and Commission Merchants for the Sale of Leather, Fur and Wool 
Nos. 410 to 414 South Main Street. 

This firm is at present the oldest house hatidling hides west of the Mississippi river. 
They are probably better known throughout the West than any house in that line of business. 
Established in 1854, they have by honorable and prudent management gained a reputation 
that has secured them a large number of shippers, many of whom have been dealing witli 
them for over a quarter of a century. 

Their principal business is in hides and tallow, but they also handle large quantities of 
furs and wool. They have, in connection with their warehouse on Main Street, a number of 
houses in the outskirts of the city, where they receive the green hides and tallow from the city 
butchers. 

They are careful and conservative, as is best illustrated by the fact that during the thirty 
years that they are in business tlieir paper has never been dishonored, nor have they ever 
asked for any extension. 

Mr. A. Krieckhaus, the senior of the firm, is an old citizen, and has in various ways iden- 
tified himself with public interests. He was a member of the City Council for ten years, and 
during two years its president. In 1878 he was chosen as one of the thirteen Charter Commis- 
sioners who framed for the city of St. Louis a charter, which has since served as a model for 
manv other cities. The practical civil service reform contained in it is mostly Mr. Krieck- 
haus' work. He hr.s also been a member of the Board of Charit-y Commissioners, and is con- 
nected as director with several insurance companies for nearly tvrenty-five years. 

JAS. F. EWING. 

Agent for the Salt Associatim of Michigan and Michigan Dairy Salt Co., and Dealer in Foreign Salt: 
105 North Third Street, Merchants txcliaiig^e Building. 

The Salt Association of Michigan is a powerKil combination of the salt manufacturers of 
that State, which includes all the producers of the staple of any note doing business thee 
At least ninety-eight per cent, of the salt prepared for market in Michigan is controlled bv 
this association. The association has branch houses in Chicago, Milwaukee, Duluth, Toledo, 
Cincinnati, Louisville, Nashville and Buffalo. The home office is at East Saginaw, Michigan. 
Some idea of the immense trade enjoyed by this company can be got from the figures showiiiir 
how the production has increased. In i860, Michigan made 4,000 barrels of salt; in 1884" 
37,000,000. The Michigan Association had an exhibit at the New Orleans World's E.\posi- 
tion that «as much remarked. 

The St Louis branch house was established in 1881. Since Mr. Jas. F. Ewing has taken 
charge (18S1), the buyers of this vicinity can purchase direct from the manufacturers, thus 
saving the wholesaler's and middleman's profit. Mr. Ewing has been connected with the asso- 
ciation, as a member, since 1881 only, but he has been handling and manufacturing salt for 
fourteen or fifteen years, and is consequently posted in the trade. He attends to the com- 
pany's patronage in Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama, Southern Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, 
Colorado, .Vrkansas, Tennessee, Texas, and the Indian Territoiy. He will be found by in- 
tending purchasers to be a most agreeable and courteous gentleman to treat with. The Dairy 
salt manufactured by the Michigan Dairy Salt Company is said to be equal to an^r »n the world 
for butter and cheese purposes. 

ST. LOUIS STEAM HEATING AND VENTILATING CO. 

A. \V. Benedict, President; D. M. Fitzgerald, Vice-President and Superintendent; Jno. D. Ripley, 

Secretary and Treasurer; Heating by most Approved Methods, Stores, Residences, 

Churches, and all Public Buildings; tzi Olive Street. 

This is a corporation organized but a few months since, and the outgrowth of a de- 
mand for the more extensive application of the steam heating principle to stores, residences 
and public buildings. The advantages of this system of heating are obvious, and are em- 
phasized in the devising of most efficient and economical apparatus and the employment of 
the most skilled labor in its behalf. With ample capital, practical experience, the em])!uy- 
ment of the most modern methods and improvements, this company enjoys the best faci- 
lities for conducting the business in a most extensive and thorough manner. The specialty 
IS the heating of all classes of buildings by steam, and this is the only house in the West 
devoting Its entire attention to this growing interest. The premises occupied by the com- 
pany are 20x80 feet, and among the wares handled are the Bundy Steam Radiator and the 



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Joy Boiler, which are already being extensively pushed by the establishment. Estimates, 
plans and specilications are furnished for all the approved methods of steam heating and 
ventilating. 

The executive officers of the comjiany are of long experience in their special line of 
business, and among the leading architects and buililers their work is generally approved 
and highly endorsed. For hygienic and other reasons, it is incumbent upon householders to 
see to it that the heating and ventilating of their residences is pro]:)erly done. This may be 
effectually accomplished l)y dealing with the St. Louis Steam Heating and \'entilating Co. 

RICE, STIX & CO. 



Johh, 



)f Dry Good , ; N'cw York : 



13 and 15 White Street; St. I..ouis 
Charles Street. 



S. E. Corner Fifth and St. 




This house, with several other strong establishments of that section, came here t>) do 
business from Memphis soon after the memorable yellow fever epidemic of 1S79. The re- 
moval of this establishment in i)ar- 
ticular was of especial benefit to the 
St. I>ouis business community, for 
it brought here pushing, active 
and spirited tradesmen with ample 
cai)ital and resources to found a 
great house, for such it was from 
the start. 

The principals in this house 
are Henry and Jonathan Rice, 
1>. and D. Eiseman, and \Vm. Stix. 
The house stands in the lead of the 
dry goods market. The manage- 
ment is, and has been since the lo- 
cation here, a little ahead rather 
than merely abreast of the times. 
Such has been the expansion of its 
trade in the past five years that 
sales annually equal if they do not 
exceed those of any house here. 
A million dollars worth of goods is carried in stock, and 140 employes are retained, 
twenty of whom are travelers. The house has no specialties, selling the whole line of dry 
and furnishing goods and notions to a patronage in the South, Southwest and North, the bulk 
of it in eleven states, that need not now be enumerated. The original establishment was 
made in Memphis in 1862. The conduct of the house there, as here, was business-like and 
beyond cavil. 

SPEER, JONES & CO. 

Manufacturers of Fine Machinery Oils, Greases, i tc : 70S .and 711) Xorth Main Street; Brancli in Kansas 

City. 

When Mr. A. A. .Speer first ventured in this line, at 121 \'ine Street, some eight years 
ago, it was in a most modest fashion. If he then went to dinner, or was called away on bus- 
iness, he was compelled to lock up his little place because he had no employe. But applica- 
tion and business tact soon brought him patronage, and later on the assistance of a ]iartner, 
Mr C. J. .Selden, established the struggling concern on a more enduring basis. Selden ^; 
Speer were succeeeed in 1881 by A. A. Speer & Co., the " Co." being N. L. Ujison, of Park- 
ersburg. West Virginia, who in turn retired in 1S82, Mr. Geo. P. Jones accpiiring his interest 
some months after\\ard. The business had been steadily jirogressing during all this time. 
From Vine Street removal was made to 615 North Main Street, where a fire j^roved but a 
temporary distress. The house has been at the situation indicated by the above headlines 
since December of last year. 

Messrs. S])eer & Jones had each a wide acquaintance before their co-partnership. Mr. 
Speer, after his arrival here in 1869 from Washington City, was for a time with A. A. Mellier 
in a responsilile position. Mr. Jones has been in oil now for u]iwards of twelve years. It 
will thus be seen that each has most excellent qualifications for trade pursuits. Their Kansas 
City branc-h (located at 1308 Union Avenue there) has been remarkably successful. Four 
traveling men are in the service of this house. The annual business transactions of the St. 
Louis house are at least $150,003. Sjiecial prices made for special lots. Sample orders 
welcomed. 



THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 79 

THE MERCANTILE AGENCY. 

R. G. Dun & Co., Proprietors; C. B. Smith, St. Louis Manager: 204 North Third Street. 

The following, as most accurately describing the subject of these paragraphs, is repub- 
lished from a recent account of R. G. Dun's Mercantile Agency: 

" After the commercial revulsion of 1837, it was found necessary to adopt some plan by 
which wholesale dealers could promptly and correctly post themselves regarding the standing 
of the retail dealer, and to Judge Lewis Tappan, of New York City, we are indebted for the 
admirable system now carried on by R. G. Dun & Co. Commenced by him in 1841, in the 
City of New York, it has been carried on uninterruptedly by his successors under the styles 
of Lewis Tappan & Co., Tappan & Douglas, B. Douglas & Co., Dun, Boyd & Co., Dun, 
Barlow & Co., and R. G. Dun & Co., and in Canada as Dun, Wiman & Co., the changes in 
style being necessitated simply by the retirement at successive periods of members of the 
firm." 

It seems almost superfluous to explain the purpose and utility of the Mercantile Agency. 
The great majority of bankers, jobbers and manufacturers know its aim and great benefits; 
but there are a large class of dealers in the country who do not thoroughly understand the 
system and its object, and therefore it is admissible to explain that its intention is to photo- 
graph as clearly as possible the local impression every business man has made in his own 
community as to character, capacity and capital, and to put the information thus gained in an 
intelligible and accessible shape for the guidance of those who dispense credits. The uni- 
versal use which has been made of its reports shows what an assistance it has been to com- 
mercial traffic. 

The mercantile agency possesses vast stores of information, which are constantly drawn 
upon by 30,000 subscribers, and the credits of the entire country are decided mainly upon 
its reports. This firm expends fully $3,000,000 annnally in its efforts to gather and 
make the most reliable information. Its reference book is issued four times a year — in Jan- 
uary, March, July and September. These books contain the names of merchants and traders 
of every description, banks and bankers everywhere, and ratings which at a glance approxi- 
mate their net worth, general credit and standing. In its offices are on record detailed 
reports giving the past history, the present financial and moral status of merchants, bankers 
and traders, which subscribers can obtain upon application. The daily sheet of changes con- 
tains all failures, dissolutions, suits, mortgages, etc., occurring throughout the country ; and 
this feature is alone worth more than the amount charged for the annual subscription. 

The St. Louis branch of this agency has a force of nearly 100 employes. A printing 
and publishing department is not the least important of its facilities. This branch has been 
established here about thirty-five years. Mr. C. B. Smith, the Manager, was ten years Assistant 
Manager with Mr. King, two years Assistant with Mr. Scranton, and has been Manager 
himself for two years. He has been with R. G. Dun & Co. for twenty years altogether. 
Mr. Smith has charge of a district which includes a large territory in Southern and Central 
Illinois, all of Missouri except a few counties near Kansas City, all of the Indian Territory 
and a portion of Northern Arkansas. The St. Louis branch, like all the others, has a 
thoroughly-appointed collection department attached to it. Mr. Smith will be pleased to 
treat with all parties desiring collections made or information imparted. 

THE CHRISTY FIRE CLAY CO. 

Calvin M. Christy, Piesident; F. A. Bushey, Secretary and Manager: Mines and Works, Intersection 
of Gravois and Morgan Ford Roads: Office, Southeast Corner of Eightli and Chestnut Streets. 

The works of this company were first operated by Wm. T. Christy about the year 1857. 
The incorporation dates from 1881. The capital stock of $100,000 is all paid up. About 300 
acres of land where the mines are situated are owned by the company. Something like lOO 
men and boys are on its pay roll. 

This company makes a specialty of preparing clay for glass makers' pots and crucibles. 
They do not make fire brick. At one time the glass manufacturers used only imported clays 
for their processes, but now they prefer the Missouri material, and have shown especial favor- 
itism for those of the Christy Co. Only a small portion of the clay at the mines is used for 
these purposes, the balance going to parties making fire brick. That which is used for glass- 
making materials is carefully refined before being marketed. Shipments of it are made most 
largely to the East, but a large trade is also done with the North and Northwest, so far away 
even as Toronto and Montreal, as also with Ohio, New York, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Ken- 
tucky and Maryland consumers. The principal products of the works as has been intimated 
are: fire clays, raw, burnt and ground for glass-house pots, crucibles, retorts, etc., and washed 
clay. 



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THE NEW HOME SEWING MACHINE CO. 

Principal Office and Factory, Orange, Mass. Export Office, 30 Union Square, New York City, 
St. Louis Branch House, Corner T>Jinth and Olive Streets, J. B. Carpenter, Manager. 

This excellent sewing machine, which is said by those in whose households it is used to 
combine not only all the excellences of other tirst-class machines, but many special features 
and advantages that none others possess, has long been a favorite in St. Louis, but never so 
extensively as at present, under the capable and energetic management of Sir. Carpenter, 
the resident representative of the company. 



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Tlie New Home is manufactured at Orange, Mass., about 800 hands being constantly 
employed in tlie factory, and the perfection of the machnie is establislied in the fact that out 
of 600,000 machines made and sold, less than one hundred complaints have been received 
from purchasers. The export office of the company is at 30 Union Square, New York, and 
branch houses are maintained at Chicago, San Francisco, Atlanta, Dallas, Texas, and in 
other leading cities. The territory su])iilied by the St. Louis branch house includes South- 
ern Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Mississip]ii, Arkansas, Nei)raska, Colorailo and Utah, Idaho 
and Wyoming Territories, and sub- branches are maintained at Kansas City and Atchison. 
Outside of these latter points, and this city, the St. Louis house sells only to dealers, and in 
St. Louis fifteen wagons are constantly employed delivering the " New Home" to custom- 
ers. Mr. Carpenter, the St. Louis manager, though but recently sent to take charge of tlie 
house here, has had many and successful years' experience in this line elsewhere. 



THE D. R. FRANCIS & BRO. COMMISSION CO. 

p. U. F-rancis, President; S.R.Francis, Vice-President; W. G Boyd, Treasurer; AV. P. Kcnnett, 
Secretary: Rooms iS to 21, Gay Buildmij, Opposite the Chamber of Commerce. 

As the Mayor of St. Louis, the senior member of this firm lias attained to a prominence 
not often achieved by one of his years, but as one of the most active operators in the grain 
market, he was already pretty well known when he was chosen to office. He had been 
Vice-President and President of the Mercliants Exciiange, and was foremost in such public 
measures as the Mississippi improvement scheme, and matters looking to the extension of 
the grain and commercial interests of the city. 

The P. R. Francis Commission Coni]iany is an incorporation of recent date, which suc- 
ceeded to the business of 1). R. Francis & Bro. That house was founded about ten years 
ago by the present Chief Magistrate of the city. S. R. Francis has I)een a resident of the 



THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 



city ami a partner with his brother for aliout eight years. Mr. Francis, the elder l)rother, 
began his mercantile career here as a clerk with .Shryock & Rowland at the age of seventeen. 
He is now President of the Union Elevator Company, and has investments in the Laclede 
Bank and various other enterprises. 

The house deals with all the grain growing and consuming sections. It does a heavy 
option and commission business. It has a branch in New Orleans, run under the commer- 
cial designation of the " Gomila-Francis Mercantile Co.," with D. R. Francis as President; 
Breedlove Smith, Vice-President; S. R. Francis, Treasurer; W. P. Kennett, Secretary ; and 
\. J. Gomila, Manager. 

Mr. W. G. Boyd, Treasurer of the I). R. Francis Commission Co., like the brothers, is a 
Kentuckian, who came here three years ago to engage in the grain business with them. Mr. 
Francis' public career and successes are so recent as to need no repetition here, lie was 
elected Mayor of the city in April last. 

BOWMAN & CO. 

P;iiry I'roiUicts: 68 to 70 North Slate Street, Chicago; 81S and S20 Morgan Street, St. I^ouis. 

This pretty 
cut is the trade 
mark of a house 
that does the 
greatest busi- 
ness in its line 
of any here. 
Twelve delivery 
u agons are run 
by it in this city, 
supplying cus- 
>? t o m e r s with 
? milk, cream, but- 
ter, cheese and 
ice cream. 
About 20,000 
gallons of ice 
cream alone are 
sold by it in the 
season. 

The princi- 
jialsinthe house 
are Robert 

Bowman and his sons, J. R. and R. A., and C. E. Peck. J. R. Bowman and Peck man- 
age the Chicago house, the others, affairs here. Mr. Robert Bowman, the senior member 
of the firm, came here in 1878 from Illinois, where he had been farming. Ilis sons were in 
the business here before he came. 

The Chicago house sells about 1,400 gallons of milk daily. One specialty of the St. 
Louis house is its ice cream, shipments of which are made to the neighboring towns. This 
product is made by Bowman & Co. from pure cream only, and is free from adulterations. Be- 
ing dealers themselves in the materials for it, the house has advantages in this respect that 
are not possessed by competing concerns. 

W. W. JUDY & CO. 

I Dealers in I'Dultry and Game : 704 North Broadway and Union Market. 

\V. W. Judy & Co. (W. W. Judy and Jas. T. Farrell) have been doing business in St. 
Louis since 1865. They have been nine years in their present location, before that havino- 
occupied a location opposite the old post-office. They make the claim, with what seems to be 
good reason, that no other house here, in their line, approaches them in the extent of the bus- 
iness transacted. They have a large local trade, but they ship the bulk of their stuff all over 
the States, particularly to Boston, New York and. other Eastern points. They have thirty- 
five men employed, looking after this and the patronage of the leading hotels and restaurants 
of this vicinity. 

Messrs. Judy & Co. have also the agency for Palmer's, Rochester, New York, fire-works. 
It is safe to say that no house here handles the quantity of choice game, deer, etc., that this 
one does, or that has such facilities for the preparation and shipment of these perishable 
commodities that this one has. 




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THE JULIUS WINKELMEYER BRE\VING ASSN. 

Chris. Winkelineyer, President; A. \V. Straiib, Secretary and Treasurer; Julius ^Vinkelmevc■r, 
Superintendent : Market Street, from Seventeenth to Eighteenth. 

The Julius Winkelmeyer who founded this establishment in 1844 has been dead for many 
years. From 1867 to 1879 the establishment was run by his widow, and in the latter year was 
incorporated, the sons and son-in-law of the founder now conducting it. Chris, and Julius 
Winkelmeyer are natives of St. Louis. They were bred to this business, and although still 
young men are thoroughly skilled in all its processes. Secretary Straub came h'^re in 1873, 
from Alleghany City, and upon his marriage into the family acquired an interest in the busi- 




ness. He, too, has had a life-long experience in the brewing line, his father having been 
among the first to brew lager beer in this country. Mr. Straub is Vice-President also of the 
International Bank, and is a city councilman, which is some indication of his general capa- 
bilities. 

The Winkelmeyer brewery covers the whole of two blocks and part of another. It is 
one of the largest and best patronized here. About half its trade is local, the remainder 
being a Southern patronage, Texas especially making strong demand for its most excellent 
beverage. The company has an especial reputation for its superior lager, which is bottled 
for the foreign and local trade, and for its malt. 

CRESCENT METAL WORKS. 

More, Jones & Co., Manufacturers of all kinds of Car and Engine Brasses, Babbitt Metals, Solders, 
Bar Ecad, (.tc. : Office and Works, 1604, 1606 and u'>oS Xorth Eighth Street; 
Xew York Office, 72 Wall Street. 

The business of tliis enterprising industrial establishment, which has had an existence 
of nine years in St. Louis, is chiefly with railway companies, in supplying them with car and 
enf^ine brass castings in every variety; hence its trade in this line extends all over the country, 
from Boston to Oregon, and from St. Paul to Mobile, and includes also a very large city trade 
with machine shops for castings for engines and such general brass works as machine shops 
ordinarily use. The firm also sell to dealers and manufacturers, their Babbitt metals, solders, 
bar lead, etc., in large quantities. 

Messrs. Ed. A. More and Henry T. Jones, who compose the firm, are thoroughly expe- 
rienced in their line. They only do a lirass foundry work, not doing any finishing at all. The 
factory at 1604, 1606 and 1608 North Eighth Street, covers 60x130 feet, and employs twelve 
to fifteen men in manufacturing, while two salesmen are also employed in traveling. P^xten- 
sive business connections are maintained East, and the house is represented in New York 
City by I. Shelby Weiler, at 72 Wall Street. The industry is a most important and prosper- 
ous one. 



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THE NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE CO. 

Will. L. Hill, General Manager for St Louis ; Second Floor, 417 Pine Street. 

The New York Life Insurance Company commenced business in 1845. It has liail a 
St. Louis agency since 1849. The branch here has for its field of operation Missouri, Kan- 
sas, Texas, Arkansas, the Indian Territory, New Mexico and Colorado. During the first 
three months of this year, the St. Louis office has had transactions rising $750, cxx). The 
office here writes in the neighborhood of $3,000,000 of policies yearly. 

The New York Life is one of the strongest companies in existence. Its fortieth annual 
report (Jan. 1st, 1S85) showed that it has cash assets of $59,000,000; that its estimated sur- 
plus was $10,000,000; that the number of its policies in force was 78,047; that the amount 
of its insurance in force was $229,000,000; and that it had paid to policy holders in 1SS4 
$6,734,955. These extraordinarily large figures, together with its length of service, indicate, 
better than any words can, its remarkable resources and stability. It issues policies — nonfor- 
feiting — on the Tontine plan, besides the other forms of insurance. The Tontine system of life 




insurance, meeting the approval and receiving the patronage of bankers, brokers, merchants, 
and other classes of men who cVeal largely in money, has become pojiular also with the 
masses. The proof of this lies in the fact that two Tontine companies wrote more new business 
in 1SS4 than all the other life companies combined. The advantages of the Tontine system 
may be summed up in this: First, it does away with the ojectionable idea that a settlement 
of the policy must be deferred until death — in other words, the insured hasn't "got to die to 
win." Second, every insurer can now fully unilerstand the terms of his contract. Third, 
a reward is offered the insured for keeping in full force a policy for the use of his family or 
beneficiaries, because the survivors of the Tontine period divide all jjrofits. 

The Missouri State Superintendent of Insurance reported of this company's business 
here that, deducting the policies that ceased to be in force during the year, the amount of 
p )'iicies in force on Ja'iuary 1st last was $600,000 greater than on the corresjionding date of 
1:184. The total amount of policies in force here was over $8,000,000. These plani facts 
suggest an unmistakable conclusion as to the soundness of this company and its agency. 

Manager Hill has, by years of service, acquired the full confidence, not alone of his 
company, but of all who have ever had dealings with him. He is accounted an authority on 
all matters connected with life insurance and is a most courteous and eificicnt rc|M-esentative 



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for the New York Life. He has managed affairs here since 1869, and having lieen a resi- 
dent of the city since 1S61 is very thoroughly identified with her material advancement and 
prosperity. Before taking this agency, as will be remembered l)y those doing business here 
at that time, he was with the Merchants Union Express Company. 

THE ST. LOUIS DRY PLATE CO. 



Miuuifiicturers of Gelatine Drv Plates : S-jy Chouteau Avenue. 



Dry plates for in 



pronnuiK 



■d the 



stantaneous photography have been in use in this country for five or six 
years. Eff(jrts had been made in England 
and other parts of Europe to perfect this 
jirocess, but without success. It re- 
mained for American ingenuity to ac- 
complish it where the slower meth- 
ods of the old countrymen failed. Dry 
plates are twenty-hve times as rapid 
as the wet plates, doing in a second v\-hat 
formerly took, in the old way, sometimes 
thirty seconds. 

This company has a capital of $25?" 
000 invested. It employs about twenly- 
tive hands, and is now selling in all jiarts 
of the United States, in South America, 
and the Spanish speaking sections of tlie 
Continent. Secretary Westner, of the St. 
Louis Dry Plate Company, attends to tlie 
business outside the city, visiting the 
trade at intervals. This company's jiro- 
divcts are now used by all the leading 
jihotographers of the country, and are 




lest, must rapid and best ])latc in the world. 



A. FRANKENTHAL & BRO. 



Manufacturers and \Vholesale Dealers in >ren's F"urnishinj!: Goods : Office and (Salesrooms, jo;) Xorth 
I5roadway; Factories at 717 and 719 North Third Street. 

This well-known house, the partners in which are Messrs. Alexander and All)ert 
Frankenthal, has lieen established in St. Louis more than a quarter of a century, and 
from a comparatively small Iseginning has steadily developed a business iii men's furnishing 
goods that now exceeds $600,000 a year, and covers in extent of territory the entire West 
and Southwest. 

At their extensive factories at 717 and 719 North Third Street, where 70 to 80 hands are 
constantly employed, the firm manufactures about an hundred dozen garments a day of the 
various kinds that the season calls for, but chiefly overalls, shirts and drawers. In these 
lines, they manufacture as largely as any house in the West. The offices and salesrooms 
occupied by them, at 409 North Broadway, comprise five stories and basement 30x115 
feet, and well stocked with their excellent and always salable wares. The Messrs. Frank- 
enthal are vigorous and enterprising in the ]irosecution of their business, and deserve the 
success which their excellent management of so im]oortant an industry has accomplished. 

GOETZ & COBB. 

Sole Manufacturers cf Glencoe Lime, and Wholesale Dealers in Cement, Lime, I'laster, Sand, Hair, 

I-ire Brick, etc. : Kilns at Cjlencoe and Laclede Stations, Mo. Pac. 11. II : Oflice 

and Warehouse, Fifteenth and Gratiot Sfeets. 

It is now many years since the senior member of this liouse, Mr. C. W. Ccjet/., began 
marketing the (jlencoe lime, and time has fairly demonstrated its superiority. This and the 
Laclede Finishing White Lime has been awarded first premium for purity for live successive 
years by the St. Louis Agricultural and Mechanical Association. It is used almost exclu- 
sively by contractors and builders throughout the States of Missouri, Illinois, Kansas, Texas, 
Arkansas and Nebraska; containing as it does almost 100 yicr cent, jnire lime, it can have 
no superior. 

Mr. C. W. Cioctz, of this linn, lias lived here about all his life. lie was well-known in 
mercantile life before he ventured into this line, and was always an activebusiness man. Mr. 



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C. \V. S. Cobb, his ])aitner, came here from Maine, where he was brought up to this partic- 
ular line, his father liaving been in it before him. The house holds memberships in both the 
Merchants and Mechanics Exchanges. Over forty men are in the emjiloy of the house. 
From a circular recently issued by this house the following additional information is ex- 
tracted : 

" Our shipping facilities are second to no other house in this line in the West. Our kilns 
and \\arehouses are well located and connected by rail. Our business being extensive, we 
are enabled to get special rates for freight. 

"Orders by mail will receive prompt attention, and can be addressed to us at our main 
office and warehouse, Ffteenth and Gratiot Streets; Ijranch depots at Fourteenth and ISenton, 
and F"ifteenth and Market Streets; also warehouse at East St. Louis, on licit Line Railroad. 
Works at Glencoe, and Laclede Stations." 

ST. LOUIS TYPE FOUNDRY. 

K;t;ib'.ished in 1S40, by Aiig-ustus P. Ladew. Reorganized in 1S59. Incorporated in iNu. 

Ja-;. (r. Pavyer, Pre.s't; C. S. KaulTman, Trcas. ; "Win. nri;^lU, Scc'y; Printlng^ Machine ^Vorks and 

Wholesale Paper Warehouse ; "oo and 503 North Third Street. 

The St. Louis Type Foundry succeeded the old firm of Ladew, Peers & Co., which 
failed in the year 1859. Two years later it was incorporated by a special act of the legisla- 
ture. Since then this concern has been uniformly successful, its business increasing an- 

,.Vi^ 0i. ^^, , "-, 3==.^ nually, until it is now not only the largest of its kind 

in this vicinity, but is fairly to be compared in point 
of resources, transactions and output ^^•ith any 
similar concern in the country. Its trade extends 
throughout the whole W^est, in the South, South- 
i west, through Texas, into the States of Mexico, and 
■-.''X|.^;-. into Canada. 

The original capital of $40,000 has with its 
accumulations reached to over $200,000. Besides 
occupying its large store, with its mercantile, type 
and electrotype departments, at the corner of Third 
and Vine Streets (of which building the annexed 
cut is a representation), it owns and maintains a 
Hige four-story factory at the corner of Broadway 
ind Poplar Street. Its employes number one 
I hundred and twetity. It manufactures and deals in 
-ill kinds of printing types, cuts, rules, dashes, 
cncles, ovals, Icad^, ^^lugs, metal and wood furniture; also printing presses; paper, card 
and lead cutters; mitering machines, chases, galleys, shooting and composing sticks, ty]ie 
cabinets, cases and stands, imposing stones, branding and pattern letters. It owns the 
patent and manufactures the celebrated Mustang mailer, immense numbers of which ha\-e 
been sold throughout this country and Canada. It keeps in stock and deals in all kinds of 
printing paper, consisting of news, book and writing; also all kinds of plain and ruled 
writing papers, all kinds of card and card-boards, a large and extensive stock of chromo and 
visiting cards, wedding stationery, envelopes, and printing ink and bronzes in all variety; 
in short, everything needed by the printing and bookbinding fraternities. 

THE GERST BROS. MANUFACTURING CO. 

The "Cass Avenue Iron AVorks and Foundry;" F. Gerst, President; Albert Gerst, V^ice-Prcsident ; 
J. Hem, Secretary: Alaniifacturers of Iron Railings, Castings, etc.; Sco to S06 
Cass Aveniie. 

The business now conducted by the Gerst Bros. Manufacturing Co. was established in 
1849 by the father of the principals in the corporation. The sons were bred by him to the 
business; and upon his decease, twenty-four years ago, they acquired the business. F. Gerst, 
President of the company, learned the machinist's trade in his youth, and his brother, the 
Vice-President, was brought up to the moulding trade. Thus both have, by experience and 
training, an expert knowledge of their vocation. Secretary Hem is a native of St. Louis. 
He has been with this concern for twelve years. 

This foundry employs some forty men constantly, and it does more railing and light house 
work than all the other manufacturers of this city jKit together. In the line of house work 
it has special facilities, and a first-rate patronage, with customers in the interior of this State, 
in Illinois and the South, as well as in this city. 




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THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 




ELY & WALKER DRY GOODS CO. 

Importers and Jobbers: Fift;i and St. Charles Streets. 

_ ^__„^ This cutis a representation of the 

premises occupied by the Ely & Walker 
Dry goods Co., whose business may be 
estimated from the fact that it has loo 
employes, of whom some i8 are travel- 
ers, and from the further fact that its 
paid up capital is the extraordinarily 
large sum of $500,000. The officers of 
this company are: Frank Ely, President; 
D. D. Walker, Vice-President; Patrick 
Baggot, Secretary and Treasurer. The 
house has been doing business here for 
about four years, part of that time as 
the firm of Ely, Walker & Co., but, 
since the 1st of January, 1SS4, as an 
incorporated company. 

Upon the organization of the cor- 
poration, a number of the salesmen and 
other employes were made stockholders 
in it. This was done upon the busi- 
ness principle that such as have demon- 
strated their fidelity and capacity in subordinate positions, and have shown themselves worthy, 
are entitled to an interest in the profits of their labor, as well as a fair salary. All of the 
principals in this concern being Missouri and Illinois bred, are thus most thoroughly 
acquainted with the people and trade of the two States. The officers, stockholders and 
salesmen of the Ely & Walker Company are widely known to the trade, even of the remotest 
sections, as an association of young men who have grown up in the dry goods line, and as 
the picked men of the trade, the staff of the house having been brought together from the 
older establishments of St. Louis. The department system has been so perfected by the 
management of this house, that a complete stock under all the various heads can be shown. 
Ihe heads of these dejiartments are men who have given to them particular study. 

This house is a popular autl progressive one. It has risen by rapid strides to a rank 
with the best houses of this city anil continent. Supplying, as it does, the vast territory 
reaching south to the Gulf and west to the Pacific, and with an exceptionally fine trade in 
Missouri and Illinois, it has been, without exaggeration, phenomenally successful. Its stock 
of goods is equal to the best to be found in any market, and the spirit and accommodating 
methods displayed by it are well appreciated by the general trade. 

CHAS. G. STIFEL'S BREWING COMPANY. 

CO. Stifel, I'res't; R. Boesewetter, Sec'y and Treas. ; Jacob R. Scliorr, Siip't : Xortli I'ourteenth 
Street, from Howard to Chambers. 

.Vltogethcr, Mr. Chas. G. Stifel, the founder of the enterprise to which this space is 
devoted, has lived here in St. Louis some forty-odd years, and he has been all of that time 
connected and identified with the brewing interest. It is now some thirty- five years since 
he founded the brewery known by his name, and five years since, the better to manage its 
expanded affairs, incorporation of the business was accomplished. 

The Chas. G. Slifel Brewery has but recently had improvements made to its plant that 
m.ake it one of the most complete hereabouts. The company has just added to the premises 
a large building to be used for refrigerating machinery and as a brewhouse. In it have been 
placed two of the latest improved pattern of cold air machines at a heavy expense. These 
improvements will greatly accelerate production of Stitel's choice beverage, for with them 
the filiy employes can do the work that many more men were formerly employed for. 

The gentlemen associateil with Mr. Stifel in the management, and whose names appear 
in the headlines to this account, have had practical experience at the business. Superin- 
tendent Schorr has lived here about ten years, all of which time he has been connected with 
ilie Stifel concern. Mr. Boesewetter, Secretaiy and Treasurer for the Stifel Company, was 
an employe for many years before he became a principal by the act of incorporation. He 
has been a resident of St. Louis for thirty-one years. Mr. Stifel is a citizen of prominence 
aside from his brewing investments. He is President of the Northwestern Savings Bank, 
an. I a director of the Washington Insurance Company. 



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TENNENT, WALKER & CO. 

M;iniif;iclurcrs ami Wholesale Dealers in Boots and Shoes: 721 anj 723 Washington Avenue, X.E. 

corner of Eighth Street. 

This cut shows the premises occupied by 
the house of Tennent, Walker & Co., whose 
position in the Boot and Shoe trade of St. 
Louis is pretty fairly evidenced by the size and 
style of their quarters at Eighth and Wash- 
ington Avenue. The house was established in 
1S63, IMcssrs. Tennent & Walker having been 
its founders. Other indications of the stand- 
ing of this house in the markets of the West 
are in the fact that it employs one hundred 
men, of whom twenty-one are travelers. It 
has patronage in all the States that purchase 
from St. Louis — Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, 
Iowa, Arkansas, Texas, Mississippi, Tennes- 
see, and the South generally. The sixth floor 
of the building shown in the cut is used for 
manufacturing ];)urposes. 

Both the principals in this house are old 
residents of the city. Mr. Tennent has lived 
here for over thirty years. He was with Ten- 
nent & Co., wholesale notions, before going 
into the shoe line. Mr. Walker came to St. 
Louis in 1854. He ^\■as in several commer- 
cial enterprises before he adopted this one as 
his vocation. The house is rated as of the 
very highest order all through this section, 
and in fact wherever it has dealings. 




THE FIFTH NATIONAL BANK. 



Cashier: N. E. 



Henry Overstolz, President; Louis Espenschied, Vice-President ; C. C. Crecelius, 
Corner Fifth and Christy (now Lucas) Avenue. 

This bank is the outgrowth of the Tenth Ward Savings Association, which was organized 
in September i860. The most excellent management of that institution, and the rapid expan- 
sion of the community which it served, finally resulted in the nationalization of the establish- 
ment, which step, taken Jan. 1st, 1883, is an additional guarantee of its usefulness. It may 
not be out of place here to remark, as showing how this bank has been conducted in times 
past — from which a conclusion may be drawn as to its future conduct — this much of its his- 
tory. At the expiration of its charter as a private bank, the shares were liquidated at $1 15, 
and the shareholders then organized, under the State law, the Tenth Ward Savings Bank, 
v/ith a capital of $100,000. This latter institution, the Tenth Ward Bank, was nationalized, 
as above mentioned, under the title at the head of this account, with a capital ot $100,000, 
which sum was afterwards increased to $300,000. 

From the statement made by Cashier Crecelius, May loth last, it appears that this bank 
I then had good loans to the amount of three-quarters of a million ; that it had deposits of 
I over $600,000, and that its surplus and undivided profits were $20,970.72. Its circulation is 
I secured by U. S. Bonds to the amount of $50,000, and its total resources, at this writing, 
; are something like $1,025,627.54. The correspondents of the Fifth National are: New York, 
jlhe Fourth National and the National Park Bank; New Orleans, the Germania National 
j Bank; London, England, the Imperial Bank, Linuted; Paris, the Societie Generale de Credit 
Industnel et Commercial; Berlin, S. Bleichroder; Frankfurt a. M., Tohn GoU c\: Soehne. 

It seems to be pertinent here to mention the fact that the management of this institution 
has furnished the public service with more than one efficient financier. Thus, President Over- 
stolz, of this bank, during his term as Mavor of the citv, successfully directed the bonding 
of the municipal indebtednes, and on retiring from the office left St. Louis in the finest fiscal 
•condition. The estimation in which he is held is shown in the fact that he has three times 



Held this office. The Vice-President, Mr. Espenschied is a successful manufacturer. He 
much esteemed in commercial circles. The directors of the Fifth National are: Jan 
Green, Louis Espenschied, Conrad Stauf, Henry Overstolz, Otto D'Amour, G. A. Rub 



e is 

ames 



mann and Charles Wunderlich. These gentlemen are all so well 
^that it seems unnecessary to particularize further. 



Icnown to this community 








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'Jill'". i.\m;,sri<ii';s oi' sr. i-ouis 



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COVENANT MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY 

OF ST. LOUIS. 



K. WilUtrrHoii, I'rrr 



'rrciimircr ; A. I'. Sliiipliiiuli, Vicn ■ I'rcxldtiiil ; ('luis. ).. I'illiii^, 
Ai,t.i«l:iiit Hccrcliiry. Ollirc, No. 71 z I'liu; Slrcct, 

'I III ,, lln; dIiIc.I l-ilc I iisiirancc ( IiKiiiciny in tli<; W<-:il, wiis ()i>,';iiii/.i'l in \''r\iiu:iiy, l'S5J. 
Its |iriii(;i|ial IniwiiicHH is in tlie Stiilc of MissKiiii, but il lias ))oli(y lioMcru in iiiohI of llic 
West CTM States, Tliis coin|)ai)y has an i-xcelleiit n-coril, lias jiassed tliroiijjii tlie trials inci- 

ilciit to III'- |/:iiiir',, e))i<k'nii(:s, etc., Init liax 
iijway ; Ixiii in 1 oii'lition to Jiicci its ohlij^a- 
ii'/n,. In thiily-lwo years of l)ii:,iness, it iias 
' ,nli ,ii-.| |,;iyiiiiMil of a//t' /nilicy only, 

III i^'iS,!, the ('ovenant, a'io|)t<-(| ||m; registry 
'^^ ''X'^''''" I""vi'l'''l by >''« Klaliiiis ^l\ Mii.soiin, 
* • '*^' under wliii'l) it depo :,itH willi llic Stale hr.iirance 
I J<-))arlnienl, in jirojjer Keciirities, llie full reserve 
of all its jiolicies, iImih fully Keciirin^ all of itH 
policy }iolders. I'/ii h noliiy be.irs tlie certifi- 
( ale of llie Sii|)<'i iiilendenl, of (lie neparlrnenl 
that it is secured l>y jiIc'I'm- kI se( urities. All of this coiripaiiy's polieies are non-lorfi-itahle, 
after tuo years (rorn issue, for either paid-ii)) insurame or an extension aceordinj^ to the jiro- 
visions of the law, and every jiolicy has jjrinled on its hack a table Khowinj^ the amount of 
paid-up policy or term of extension to which the holder is enlitleil. 

The (Covenant is the only company doiii;^ business here that makes the deposit Kccurinjf 
itB policies. 'I'hc j)resiilent of the comjjany is an exjterienced life underwriter, and j^iveH fiis 
personal attention to the business of the oKice, The 'I'rustees are well-known citizens, the 
Hoard bein;{ com|)os<rd of the followinj^; A. I''. Shajjleijdi, Nathan <'ol(!, <iiven Camobell, 
Wm. II. Woudwar.l, (Jeo. II. SliieMs, Wm. I'.rown, K. Wilkerson, Wm, C. Orr.Theo, JJetts, 
(,'lias. A. McNai/, Herman Misenhardl, Henry Schwaner, Jos, N. I'ivans, .Marcus A. Wolf. 

THE ANHEUSER-BUSCH BREWING ASSOCIATION. 





Ad'iliiliUH UiiKcli, J'rchUlitiit ;iii<i .Vl;iiiii(r<-r ; V.. Miiidileiiiiiii, Hc<ritt;iry: <;(li< 

I'cKtiilox/.i StrcctJi, 



<l Mriwi-rj', .Nintl. and 



In the felicitously chosen title of this corporation is perpetuated the ii;iin<- of the foun- 
derof the largest establishment of its kind in the world, and of his son-in-law, the executive 
ohicer who created and developed a »iew and imjiortanl industry, the annual output of which 
is now coiinteil by millions of jiackaf^es — irxceedin^ twenty-live millions last year. 

I'lberhar'i Anh<-iiser, the founder of this vast enter|»rise, came to this coiinlry from I'riis- 
sia in 1S42 and embarked in the brewery btisiness in St. Louis, piirchrciinj^ the I'.avarian 
brewery, which had b<;<;n founded in 1S52, and adding to it other buildings and increasc'l 
facilities for handlinj^the prodiif:t from time to time. Vet it is doubtful if even he ever fore- 
saw that Ujion that site, in twi.-nty years, would be erected industrial jdaces so numerous, ex- 
tensive, and so harmonious in architectural b<rauty and stability. It was in 1SO5 that Mr. 
Anheiisctr took a business j)arlnerin the person of his son-in-law, Mr. Adolphus Husch, the 
){entl(-niari under whose personal supervision the establishment has j^rown to such niammolh 
proportions and inmorlance amonj^ the industries of the world. Upon the admission of Mr, 
liusch to parlnerslii|), the firm b'-cume V.. Anhr-user h Co., ,'ind the manufacturing and stor- 
ing capacities vnim still fiirth'-r enlar;;ed by the erecti';n of new buildinj^s and the construc- 
tion of new cellars, which latt'-r now form a world of industry beneath another hive of activity 
more approachable and observable. 

It was in 1X73 that the firm introduced the Pasteurizing procesH of hottlinjf beer for ex- 
port on a lar>(C scale and thus created a new and imjjorlant American industry, a source of 
national wealth, an incentive to American j^enius in devisinjf boltlin(( machinery, and, best of 
all, not only largely supjdaiited European botth-d beer in this country, but actually c< nipctc I 
with success in for(-ij.^n export markets aj^ainst Kuropean b<-er, and carried Ajnerican triumph 
so far as to take the first awards for the Amerii an product at World's I'airs held in foreij^n 
lands, over competirij{ fJerman and Austrian i<rewerieH whose ijrodiict fiad before held the 
jircsiij^e of bein;^ the best in the worM. The firm also cnj^a;.;ca like extensively in the ship- 
pin({ of bulk beer, and, the better to prosecute the business, in 1X75 a stock company, with 
iarj^ely increased capital, was formed under the name of the Anheuser-Husch Hrewinj^ Asso- 
ciation, with K, Anheuser as President, and Adolphus iJusch as Secretary and Treasurer. 
Up<m the decease of the President, in iSSrj, whir h was universally regretted by the commcr- 



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THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 



cial community in St. Louis and elsewhere, Mr. Eusch succeeded him as executive officer, 
and under his direction the establishment has grown to its present jiroportions. 

Within the limits of tiiis sketch, it would be impossible to ])resent anything like a detailed 
or complete history of this enterprise. It may be said in general terms that the buildings 
and yards cover an area of eight acres of ground, and comprise store houses, brew houses, 
offices, boiler houses, ice machine and refrigerating houses, wash house, malt house, eleva- 
tor, bottling houses, stables, cooperage shops; and in all these dejiartments over i,ooo men 
and boys are constantly employed. The premises are connected by railroad tracks connect- 
ing with the railroad systems of the country, and the brewery shipping depot does a larger 
business than many a g(K)d sized city. The company owns and controls its own refrigerator 
cars, in number nearly five hundred, and its annual shipments exceed 6,000 car loads. There 
are also river shijiping connections and facilities. These refrigerator cars carry enough ice 
to preserve the proper temperature of the bulk beer during transportation, and at various 
points throughout the South, East and West, the company has its own storage ice houses, 
controlled by resident agents. On the Keokuk and St. Louis Railroad, for instance, and at 
some river landings, the association has extensive ice houses, of capacity of 20,000 tons of ice 
at the town of Busch. From here as well as from the ice houses in St. Louis, shipments to 
the amount of 1,500 car loads and upwards of ice a year are made to the different territories 
or districts where the trade is large; in fact, the beer is so packed in ice that it can be de- 
livered to any part of America at forty degrees Fahrenheit. The refrigerating process at the 
brewery is a novelty and perfect. It consists of six ponderous ice machines. To summarize: 
The bottling department is the largest in the world and sells 25,000,000 bottles annually. The 
annual sales last year aggregate 350,000 barrels or 1,400,000 kegs, and the brewing capacity 
s 400.000 barrels or 1,600,000 kegs. Besides su]iplying an immense local demand, for the 
several brands in bottle anel keg, the association shijis to its numerous branches throughout 
America. As to its ex]iort trade, that includes Mexico, the West Indies, Central America, 
Brazil, the Sandwich Islands, Australia, China, and other countries. So throughout Great 
Britain, Spain, and even the Turkish possessions and Egyptian, the Anheuser-Busch cool 
lager is drank with pleasure and satisfaction, and wherever introduced a large and profitable 
sale results. The German and English brewers in Europe are alarmed, but to Americans the 
greatest satisfaction is afforded in this triumph of American iligenuity and enterprise. 

President Adolphus Busch, is in the highest sense a public spirited gentleman. He is 
the patron of many deserving enterprises, and his patriotic spirit and iminilses are expressed 
in his patronage of the Busch Zouaves, a State Militia organization that recently bore off the 
honors, over all competitors, in an exhibition and competitive drill at the World's Fair, New 
Orleans. 

CHAS. EHLERMANN & CO. 

Malsters anil l)c;iler.s in Hops ami Bailev; Rrcwtrrs, Distillers ami Rottlcrs' Supplies: Twenty-second 

and Scott Avenue. 

The buildings shown in this cut are the malthouse and elevator of Chas. Ehlermann & 
Co. The house of Chas. Ehlerman & Co. was founded in the year 1859, the original jno- 



prietors being W;ittenh 




heaviest business in its line transaited 
west and West. Its malt liouse has a 
and 400.000 bushels a yc.ir. Both meml 
Exchan-^e. 



d lUiscli. WVitttiiberg was Mr. Ehlermann's uncle. The 
~ house was at one time 

known as Chas. Ruepple 
& Co., Mr. Ehlermann 
then being the "Co." lie 
=^ came here when a mere 
^ boy, and was brought up 
l ^K to the business, 
-q Mr. Philip Carl, Mr. 

"^ Ehlermann's associate, has 
lived in St. Louis since 
1S56. P'or seventeen years 
. he was in the brewing bus- 

"*.mI ilr^ ii ^'Jfi"-ti*iAiiy he was employed by Ruep- 
"^'^~^ ^— ^^- ^^ -^ p]g ^(^ (Jo., and in the lat- 

pSC ter year acquired his part- 
nership interest. 

This house does the 
in St. Louis. Its trade is largely with the South- 
capacity, and in fact an output, of between 350,0(.xi 
ers of the tirni are memliers also of the Merchants 







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THE COMMERCIAL PRINTING COMPANY. 

Cluis. II. Davis, President and Treasurer; Edwin Freegard, Secretary : Printing and Binding; 
200 & 20J South Fourth Street, corner Elm. 

This corporation was formed ami commenced business in January, 1882. Its executive 
officers, however, had had many prior years experience in the same industry, individually 
and associated together. The house was formerly located at Third and Locust Streets, but 

early in the current year secured its 




present more eligible quarters, as 
shown in the cut accompanying this 
notice, at the corner of Fourth and 
Elm Streets, covering 50x150 feet, 
and affording the best lighted and 
most conveniently adapted press 
^ and composition rooms in the city. 
The extensive mechanical facilities 
include a fifty horse-power engine 
and boiler, and a large array of 
steam power presses of every size 
and variety, from the largest cyl- 
inder to the smallest card press. 
The force of employes averages 
about fifty in number, though in the 
busiest seasons there is a consid- 
erable increase. 

The company is fortunate in 
the large experience of its execu- 
tive officers. President Davis has 
charge of ofifice affairs, and .Secre- 
tary Freegard, who holds high rank 
as an artisan in printing, is gen- 
eral manager of the mechanical 
department. Both gentlemen were 
educated to the business in their youth, and each has had over twenty-five years' experience. 
The establishment, which does a large and ever increasing business, is distinguished for the 
quality of its work and the promptness and accuracy with which the same is executed. Book, 
magazine, newspaper and railroad printing are all made specialties, and the establishment is 
one esteemed in great favor by the business men of St. Louis and tributary territory, for the 
excellence of its counting-house and catalogue work. Many of the largest houses repre- 
sented ill this volume, who periodically issue extensive price lists and catalogues of their 
wares, are patrons of the Commercial Printing Company. The printing of the present 
volume of Industries of St. Louis furnishes a specimen of the book work and extensive 
facilities of the company. While its business is necessarily largely confined to the demands 
of its St. Louis patrons, the corporation yet fills many orders for customers from other cities, 
and from offices in the interior. Such work has been done here for parties in Kansas City, 
New Orleans, San Antonio, Texas, and more distant points, while many of the larger books 
printed by the house have had extensive circulation not only throughout America but in foreign 
lands also. So well equipped, and managed with conspicuous experience and ability, the 
career of the Commercial Printing Company must continue to prove one of deserved pros- 
perity. 

THE M. A. SEED DRY PLATE COMPANY. 

J. B. Buss, President, Milwaukee, Wis. ; M. A. Seed, New York, and H. C. Iluiskamp, Keokuk, Iowa, 
Directors; A. R. Iluiskamp, St. Louis, Secretary and Manager: iiiS Washington Aveniie. 

The Secretary and Manager of this company, Mr. A. R. Huiskamp, is also Secretary 
for the well-known E. Jaccard Jewelry Company. The M. A. Seed Company has been estab- 
lished here in business since 1882, but was only incorporated last year. The company man- 
ufactures dry plates for photographic purposes. The plates are prepared by the company by 
a special process, and are particularly ilesigned for the taking of instantaneous photographs, 
which was an impossibility with the old method of wet plates. The new process is now 
being generally adopted for all purposes, and the old is being abandoned altogether. The 
branch of the company here does a first-rate business. Theie are 30 employes at the Wash- 
ington Avenue headquarters and at the factory at Woodland, Mo., and the annual business 
done can not be much short of $120,000. 



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DEERE, MANSUR & CO. 

Deere & Co., Moline, 111. ; A. Maiisur and L. R. Tebbetts, St. Louis, Mo. 

Farm Machinery, Sprin«: AVagons, Buggies and Carriages; Sole Agents "John Deere" Plows and 

Cultivators, 515 and 517 Xorth Mam Street. 

This, the St. Louis branch of the John Deere Moline Plow Works, which was founded 
in 1847, has been established heie since 1874, Messis \ Mmsur and L. B. Tebbetts 



then opening it for the 
purpose of facilitating 
the company's business 
with Missmiri, So...thern 
Illinois and the Great 
South. In that territory 
alone an annual business 
is done for the Moline 
Company of $800,000 
to $1,000,000. These 
transactions require a 
corps of employes num- 
bering upwartls of thirty- 
five, and whose wage: i- 
mount to $35,000 yeai 1\ 
The St. Louis bu-.i- 
ness startetl in 1S74 in a 
modest way, \\ith the 
view especially of de- 
voting itself to the pl^,,, 
interests of the parent 
firm. It has grown by 
the addition of appro- 
priate lines of merchan- 
dise, until at present it 
is one of the largest (if 
not the largest) jobbing 
house for agricultural 
implements in the United 
States. 



Its range of trade 
comprises a territory 
reaching from the Car- 
olinas to the western 
borders of Texas, from 
Old Mexico to Missouri 
and Illinois — the territo- 
ly North, Northeast and 
Northwest of this area 
being handled by other 
branch houses of the 
Moline firm. 

Among the promi- 
nent lines of goods 
which have been so suc- 
cessfully introduced by 
Messrs. Deere, Mansur 
& Co , may be com- 
prised the following : 

The celebrated 
"John Deere" plows, 
whose features of merit 
for 40 years have placed 
them in the lead where 
strength, durability, ease 
of draft, quality of work- 
manship and general ex- 
PIONEER WESTEKN PLOW MANUFACTURER, AND celleucc have bcen con- 

sidered. 







FOL'NDER OF THE LARGEST STEEL-PLOW 
FACTORY IN THE WORLD. 



The "Gilpin" sulky plow, with its host of fifty thousand friends and its largely in- 
creasing sales, is made by this firm, who are also the manufacturers of the " Deere " spring 
cultivators, the "Sylvan" cultivator, the all iron "Columbia" cultivator, and the "New 
Deal" wheeled walking plow. This last is an entirely new departure in the theory and 
practice of plowing. It consists of a wheeled walking plow (w!th either one, two, three or 
four }ilows), so arranged that the entire weight of the furrows is carried on the wheels, whilst 
the frame work of the machine is made as light as possible consistent with strength. This 
result has been accomplished so perfectly that two horses can with ease cut and turn a 16- 
inch furrow. It has been said by many who possess the picw that the " New Deal" single, 
cutting 16 inches in width and drawn by two horses, will run as light as a 12-in. walking 
plow. The perfected features of this implement have bem patented, and we predict for 
Messrs. Deere & Co., and also Messrs. Deere, Mansur iv; Co., an immense sale for these 
goods in the future. The " New Deal" is undoubtedly a friend to both the horse and {he 
farmer. 

Besides the large line of plows manufactured by Messrs. Deere & Co., and handled by 
this house, Deere, Mansur & Co. have become known to the entire trade in their territory as 
the Western Vehicle Headquarters, owing to the fact that their line of farm and spring 
wagons, buggies, carts, track sulkies, buck boards, mountain wagons, jump seats, etc., etc., 
is much larger and more complete than that of any house west of the Alleghany Mountains. 

They have controlled for years the entire Southwestern country in the sale of the cele- 
brated "Mitchell" farm wagons, the "Cortland" spring wagons, the "Standard" bug- 
gies, and other brands of known reputation and of first-class excellence. 

Here also are to be found the "Deere" rotary drop corn planters, which were the 
pioneer implements to make rotary drops successful; the "Deere" and "Moline" stalk 
cutters, which have taken the lead wherever they have become known; and a full line of the 
" Hoosier " drills, which are known and celebrated throughout the civilized world. 

They devote also sjiecial attention to Hay Machinery, including the "Hopkins" new 
front cut mower, with its special features of excellence not possessed by other machines of 
this class, and all of which are necessary to a perfect grass cutting machine. 



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" Coates' " and ''Albion" sulky rakes and "Greensburg" and "Tiffin "wooden 
rakes, hayforks, etc., etc. 

The large and rapidly increasing interest in the cultivation and development of sorghum, 
had led this tirra to perfect and offer to the trade a line of Sorgo Machinery which is admirably 
adapted to the requirements of the most exacting and progressive planters. 

Their celebrated "Charter Oak" cane mill, with steel shafts, babbitted boxes, encased 
crear, angling sweep cap, etc., etc., stands without an equal in the market. 

The "Samson" and "New Amber" cane mills are also first-class in their respective 
lines, whilst the " Monitor " evaporator has never failed to make friends and to give perfect 
satisfaction. 

The space at our disposal is too small to give in detail anything like an enumeration 
even of the complete line of Farm Machinery which is offered by this house. Parties inter- 
ested will do well to correspond direct with Messrs. Deere, Mansur & Co., of St. Louis, Mo 

The firm will take pleasure in answering all inquiries concerning prices and terms and 
features of me>i-it possessed by their goods. Their traveling men will be found throughout 
the entire section above alluded to, and merchants desiring to purchase \\ill be promptly 
waited upon by some representative of the house. 



THE TINKER & SMITH MALTING COMPANY. 

George Tinker, President; Wm. Smith, Vice-President and Treasurer; Z. W. Tinker, Secretary; 

Proprietors of the Franklin Malt House: Franklin Avenue between Ninth and Tenth, 

and the Spring Water Malt House, 32, 34, 100 to 106 South Seventeenth Street. 

This cut represents but one of the establishments run by the company which this sketch 
describes. The Tinker & Smith Company was incorporated in 1879, but the same business 
had been conducted by the same parties under another designation from 1852. The Franklin 

Avenue malt house owned by this com- 
p; ny \\ as built so long ago as 1864. The 
Seventeeenth Street establishment was 
run as a brewery by them for some ten 
years and w as then turned into a malt 
house. In 1879 additions were made to 
it which gives the company the right to 
call it the most complete concern of the 
kind in St. Louis. 

These two malt houses have a capac- 
ity equal to 250,000 bushels. About 
half this product goes to the city brewers, 
the remainder being shipped all over the 
United States, the company having cus- 
tomers in points so remote as Las Vegas, 
New Mexico, and the State of Nebraska. 
About twenty men are enijiloyed at the 
two establishments. The capital stock of 
the company is $50,000. Mr. Tinker, sr., 
supervises the business and attends to 
the buying of grain and selling of malt. Mr. Smith looks after the books and finances. 

The Tinker & Smith Company are also interested in the new Rock Springs distillery, as 
will be seen from the following list of its officers: Geo. Tinker, President; Henry Floerke, 
Vice-President; Z. W. Tinker, Secretary. 




W. D. MARSHALL & CO. 

The ^Vestern Foundry ; Manufacturers of Steam Engine's, Gas Works and Mining^ Machinery, Sliafting, 
Hangers, Pulleys, etc. : Main Street from Florida to MuUanphv. 

Mr. W. D. Marshall has been operating these works upon his own account since the 
death of his partner, Jonas Kilpatrick, which event occurred in 18S0. These works cover 
the entire block on Maui Street from Florida to Mullanphy, and employ 150 men when run- 
ning to their full capacity. They have been in their present location since 1862, but had 
been in operation long prior to that time, 1S58 being the date of their establishment. 

The patronage of the Western Foundry is largely local, but it also fills many orders for 
the South and West. ' This concern may justly be reckoned among those establishments that 
by their breadth, vigor and progressive characteristics have contributed to the manufacturing 
eminence of St. Louis. 



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THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 




THE PAULY JAIL BUILDING AND MANUFACTURING 

COMPANY. 

p. J. Pauly, Sr., President; John Pauly, Vice-President; J . J Ligon, Secretary : 2215 De Kalb Street. 

The old firm of P. J. Pauly & Bro;, which has been doing business here since 1856, was 

dissolved some months ago, and the Pauly Jail Building and Manufacturing Company 

became its successor liy incorporation. This is the only establishment in the United States 

that nialves a sjiecialty of building 
patent steel - clad cells, the steel- 
clad saw and file-proof cells of the 
Pauly system having been approved 
as the best in use, by time and expe- 
rience. 

The works of this company are 
shown in the cut on this page. In 
them an average force of 85 men 
'^ are employed. The company's field 
of operations lies in the entire 
South, the West, Northwestern and 
Middle States. The contracts exe- 
^ cuted by the Pauly Company for the 
building of new jails, and for the 
reconstructing of old ones, during 
the past six years, aggregate a total of 266 in twenty-nine States and Territories and 
Canada. Having made and introduced extraordinary improvements, both in the shape and 
size of jail cells, as also in the sanitary and locking arrangements therefor, the business of this 
company has exjianded so that it has had to abandon all other lines of iron work and to 
make this its specialty. The result is that it is now doing more work of this kind than all 
the iron works in the United States combined. The Pauly factory is the only factory devoted 
exclusively to this branch of industry. 

Mr. P. J. Pauly, senior principal in this establishment, has lived in St. Louis some forty- 
two years. He is a practical machine blacksmith, having served the regular apprenticeship 
here in St. Louis. Mr. John Pauly, Vice-President of the company, has also had a lifetime 
experience. Mr. Ligon, the Secretary of the corporation, has recently come here from Pal- 
estine, Tex., where he had been in charge of the affairs of the old house for several years. 
The Paulys have been identified with other matters of a public nature, although they now 
confine themselves strictly to their personal concerns. Mr. Pauly, Sr., was at one time a 
member of the Missouri Legislature from St. Louis, and Mr. John Pauly has been a mem- 
ber of the City Council. 

LEONHARD ROOS. 

Manufacturer of Ladies' Fine Furs: 617 North F'ourth Street. 

Before establishing himself here in 1867, Mr. 
Leonhard Roos had been engaged in the same 
line in New York City. His experience, there- 
fore, has not been limited. He handles the full 
hue of goods in furs, and makes a specialty of 
■work of the finest class. His exhibits at the Fair 
Giounds and the Exposition have been remarked 
as the finest ever displayed in this vicinity . His 
trade is principally local, but he has many patrons 
also in Kansas, Nebraska and the neighboring 
Stites. He has about 18 or 20 hands eni]iloyed 
the year round, and in the Fall, his busy season, 
sometimes 40. His annual business amounts to 
about $100,000. 

The growth of a cultivated taste locally, in 

the selection of furs, is largely due to experienced 

fuiriers like Mr. Roos. In former years it was 

deemed necessary to send East for fine furs, and 

the fashions were dictated from there; but the 

West has grown in culture in this respect commensurately with the advantages presented by 

leading houses, and now St. Louis ladies can as well, and even better, supply themselv>is 

with fashionable furs here, than they could in New York. 




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THE L. M. RUMSEY MANUFACTURING CO. 

Manufacturers and Jobbers of Pumps, Wood and Iron Working Machinery, Foundry and Railway 

Supplies, Ag^ricultural Implements, Engines and Boilers, Hoisting Macliinerv, Plumbers' 

Supplies, Belting^, Lead Pipe, Sheet Lead, Barbed Wire Fence, etc. : So6 to S20 

North Second Street and S13 to S19 North Main Street. 

Of all the manufacturing enterprises of St. Louis, the company which is the subject of 
this sketch must, by reason of the scope of its operations, the great reputation it bears 
throughout the United States, and the impetus its prosperity has given to other industrial 

interests of 

^_ St. Louis, be 

awarded the 
tirst place. 
' "* The annual 
sales are from 
$1,500,000 to 
$ 2,000,000. 
The business 
was e s tab - 
lished twen- 
t y years 
ago, and was 
incorporate d 
in iSSo, with 
L. M. Rum- 
sey, Presi- 
dent, and M. 
Rumsey, Sec- 
retaryand 
Treasurer. The capital stock, fully paid up, i^ $300,000, and the surplus $275,000. The 
whole block on which the premises are situated is owned by L. M. and M. Rumsey. As 
may be seen by the accompanying illustration, six buildings, all of them large structues, 
covering more than half the square between Morgan Street and Franklin Avenue, are 
occupied by this establishment. The patronage of this house comes from all parts of 
the United States, also from Mexico, Cuba, and South America. The L. M. Rumsey 
Manufacturing Company have the exclusive sale for the productions of the New York 
Rubber Company, the Knowles Steam Pump Works, the Ames Iron Works, Kilbourne 
& Jacobs Manufacturing Company, the Hocking Valley Manufacturing Company, the 
Bolton Steel Company, Sturtevant Blowers, Baltimore Copper, besides manyother well- 
known factories, among which can be mentioned the ^tna Iron Works, of Pittsburg, 
manufacturers of wrought iron gas and water pipe. The lead works of the company, 
situated at the corner of Second Street and Franklin Avenue, deserve special mention, being 
without doubt the most complete of the kind in the country. Here lead pipe and sheet lead 
are turned out in immense quantities, also block-tin pipe. In this building are also manu- 
factured the well-known Maylield Water Drawer and Purifier, Galvanized Pump Chain, 
Rubber Bucket Chain Pumps and Fixtures and Barbed Fence Wire. About 150 men are 
employed in these departments. With ample capital, and best possible facilities for the man- 
ufacture and handling of goods> it is needless to say that their prices will always be as low as 
the lowest and their customers will always be well taken care of. 

ST. LOUIS NATIONAL STOCK YARDS COMPANY. 

Isaac H. Knox, President; Charles T. Jones, Superintendent; Yards in St. Clair County, Illinois. 

The natural advantages of St. Louis as a receiving and distributing point for the live 
stock trade, were not fully or extensively availed of until about twelve years ago .As early as 
1870 Texas cattle was seeking a market in St. Louis, and a year later nearly 100,000 head 
were, in all, received; but adequate terminal facilities were not provided, and Chicago con- 
tinued to procure the diverting of the cattle trade to that market in large measure. But in 
1873, a few Eastern capitalists, together with a small number of resident business men like 
President Isaac H. Knox, realized the possibilities of the desirable trade opening and formed 
the St. Louis National Yard Company, establishing the National Stock Yards upon 652 acres 
of land, which cost nearly $200,000, in St. Clair County, Illinois, adjoining the corporate 
limits of East St. Louis. The terminal facilities thus secured inclule railway track connec- 
tion most extensive, ample yardage, stabling, pens, exchange and bank, and other facilities 



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for transacting business, more particularly described further on, together with a large hotel to 
accommodate visiting stockmen. . , , • v i. 

The original stockholders of this company— having $1,000,000 capital stock with charter 
privile^-e to'^increase the amount— were Wm. H. Vanderbilt, Horace F. Clark, Augustus 
Schell,'' James H. Banker, A. Boodv, A. B. Baylis, Samuel F. Barger, Allerton, Dutcher .S: 
Moore, T. C. Eastman, Alexander M. White, Isaac H. Knox, John L. Macaulay, John B. 
Bowman and Levi Parsons, who constituted a Land C'.rant and Trust Company. A majority 
of these were New York capitalists and railway magnates then in control of the \\ abash 
Railway; and President Jay Gould, who succeeded to that control, afterwards became a stock- 
holder 'in the National Yards Company. T 1- , 1 -1.- 1 

This very important enterprise was reallv originated by the New \ ork and Chicago stock 
firm of Allerton, Dutcher & Moore; and Mr. Allerton, after whom the imposing tive-story 
brick hotel adjoining the yards is called, gave his personal attention to the laying out of the 
spacious grounds. After these were surveyed and leveled, a perfect system of sewerage was 
devised, the ground being bisected by sewers placed six feet below the surface. \\ ater pipes 
were laid, the ground platted, and Avenues and Streets crossing at right angles and running 
North, South, East and West. This completed, the work of erecting buildings, sheds, barns 




and enclosures « as vigorously undertaken. Red cedar for posts and yellow pine for fencing 
and roofs were used in vast quantities. One of the frame buildings is i, 122 feet long by lOO 
broad, and throuijh its entire length is a broad passage way, on either side of which are lo- 
cated the hog pens, with a holding capacity of 20,000 hogs. The cattle yards, numbering 
nearlv throeliundred, accommodate nearly 15,000 horned cattle, and there is space outsK.e 
for -'0,000 more. The yards and avenues are paved with Belgian pavement. In the center 
of the larcre space for herding cattle is a tine two-story brick structure used by the company 
for offices. These offices, like the hotel and exch.inge hall, are lighted by gas manufactured 
at the company's own works, and two powerful engines supply the hotel and other buildings 
and yards with abundance of water. The Allerton Innise is also heated throughout by steam 
and furnished with billiard room, telegraph office, and all other appurtenances of a hrst-class 

The yards were opened with considerable civic display November 20th, 1S73, and have 
a world-wi^le reputation for their completeness and the mammoth proportions of the trade. 
Last year the yards handled 390,=;69 hea.l of cattle, 1.079,877 hogs, 277,679 sheep, and 14.- 
703 lambs. The number of cars unloaded at the tracks in the yards was 37,880. It is prob- 
able, however, that the trade of the present year will exceed the figures of 1884. 

President Isaac H. Knox, the executive head of this mammoth enterprise, was one of its 
oricrinators, and has directed its management since the opening. Superintendent Chas. 1 
Jones has also been connected with the company since it commenced operations, 
cupied the supevintendency of the yards for the past seven years. Incident to t.i 
are other co-operating industries, elsewhere notod in this work. 



and has oc- 
his enterprise 



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THE KINGSLAND & FERGUSON M'F'G CO. 

D. K. Kcrijuson, President; L..l>. KingrslanJ, Vice- President ; E.AV. Douglas, Secretary and Treasurer, 
Manufacturers of Saw Mill and A;^ricultural Machinery: 1521 North Eleventh Street. 

The Kingsland & Ferguson works are the oldest of the kind in St. Louis. All tluit jiart 
of the city where they now are was, at the time of their foundation in 1S35, woods and hko, 
a body of water then known as Reiser's L-^ke then occupMiior the site vheie the KingsHnd 
and other large manufacturing 
concerns of the neighborhood 
are. 

In 1S35 Mr. Lawrence 
Kingsland, the grandfather ot 
the present principal in the 
works, came to St. Louis from 
Pittsburg, Pa., where he was 
one of the firm of Kingsland cNc 
Lightner of that city, and estab- 
lished a branch of the Pittsburg 
house here. George Kingsland 
his son, took charge for him 
In 1S44 George Kingsland witli- 
drew from the original house, 
and with Mr. Ferguson, now tlie 
senior in management, started 
the works which are the subject 
of this sketch. Upon the death 
of George Kingsland, in 1S74 
his son, L. L). Kingsland, suc- 
ceeded to his interest, the Kings 
land & Ferguson firm thus con- 
sisting, until the incorporation 
in the same year, of D. K. Fer- 
guson, L. D. Kingsland and E 
W. L)ouglas. Mr. Ferguson is 
a native of Pittsburg, who was 
raised by George Kingsland and 
bred by him to the business 
Mr. L D. Kingsland is a native 
St. Louisan. He also was 
brouglit up in this line. Mi 
Douglas came from Pittsburg in 
1S63, and was emjdoyed by the 
old tirm until iSoS, which is the 
year in which he acquired his 
partnership interest. 

It is now, as will be seen 
from the foregoing account, 
forty-one years since Kingsland 
& Ferguson began operations 
Their works were first at the 
corner of Second and Cherry 
Streets. By 1856, prosperit\ 
had so far attended their efforts 
to oljtain patronage by first-class 
work, that they were compelled 
to remove their manufacturing; 
department to the situation in 
which the works now are. But 
the establishment was not tlien 
the striking one it has since be- 
came, for in the meantime, betwetn iSq6 and date, addition aftti ad lition Ins h<. ui m \ 
until two entire squares of ground ate ( ccupieil by the mcoipoiated compan\ s slu [is — tlie 
blocks from Eleventh to Thirteenth Streets. 

The Kingsland & Ferguson M'f'g Co. is a manufacturer of Agricultural Machinery. It 
employs over 400 hands, and has a trade extending from one boundary of the Union line to 




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THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 



the other. -In fact, it has also an export trade, Mexico, South America and the Spanish- 
speaking countries favoring it also with orders. Its specialties are so many and so varied 
that it would require a volume almost the size of this one to enumerate them; suffice it to 
say that the catalogue of the works includes saw mills, all sizes, complete with or without 
power, portable agricultural engines, stationary engines of all dimensions, boilers, edgers, 
shingle machines, lumber wagons, lath mills, threshing machines, horse j^owers, cotton gins, 
cotton presses, cane mills, corn shellers, corn and wheat mills, saws, pulleys, files, plow 
castings, etc. 

The accompanying cut is a representation of the company's works. The picture shows 
one of the most useful and important of the many industrial establishments of St. Louis. 

REILLY & WOLFORT. 

T!ic Maniiiiolh Stuhles :ind IJroadway Mule Yards; Stables 1538 and 1540 Broadway; Mule Yard, 1500 

to 150S Broadway 

St. Louis is now the greatest mule market in America, and, for the matter of that, in the 

world. The Western mules are considered the best of their kind, being a heavier-boned, 

hardier and more serviceable animal for all purposes than any raised elsewhere. The atten- 

.=i^— -- ■■- ;-.-'-;__. tion paid to the rearing of that 

._-v-r''^ ^ ■ ■' '^3;*.!^.„^ sort of stock long since brought 

the Missouri-bred mule into tle- 
mand and made St. Louis a head- 
quarters for the trade, and of late, 
such has been the course of events 
that contracts made elsewhere have 
ultimately to be filled here. Items 
are now frequent in the newspapers 
of purchases for account of foreign 
governments, etc., made through 
such dealers as those of whom this 
account treats. Messrs. Reilly & 
Wolfort's yards have been estab- 
lished about thirty years. Originally their quarters were much smaller than now, but 
by fair dealing and business-like methods they have built up a patronage that requires for its 
accommodation extraordinary room. Within the past two years they have been compelled to 
purchase adjacent premises so as to do a business now rising the sum of two millions an- 
ually and probably nearer $2,500,000; for now they have customers all over the face of the 
earth, and ship constantly to I^ondon, Paris and other European centers. Including the 
yards opposite their old place, they occupy about three blocks of ground in all. The different 
stables v\ill comfortably hold at one time 2,000 head of horses and mules. The firm handle 
yearly between 15,000 and 20,000 head of stock. Choice can always be made here, and ex- 
tra fine and large mules and horses can be obtained, suitable for city, plain and plantation 
use. Having acquired a reputation for square and honorable conduct in all transactions, 
Messrs. Reilly & Wolfort are careful of it. Indeed, a concern with the business that this one 
has, and selling so largely on connnission, must have stringent rules for the protection of pur- 
chasers as well as of those who sell. An establishment of this sort is always the safest to 
trade with. 

NATIONAL TUBE ^A^ORKS CO. 

J. O, Converse, President, Wni. S. Eaton, Treasurer, 1'. W. French, Secretary, Boston, Mass. ; 
J. II. Flagler, General Mana^^er, New York ; E.C.Converse, Assistant Manaj^er, McKeesport, Pa. 

St. Louis Branch House, S02 North Second Street; O. D. Delano, Local Manager. 

Manufacturers of Wroug^ht-Iron Pipe and Boiler Tubes; Artesian, Oil and Drive Well Tubing and 

Casing; Pumps, Columns, etc.; Mack's Patent Injectors. 

The National Tube Works Co. is a Boston enterprise, and the main offices are located 
there. The works however are at McKeesport, Penn., near the city of Pittsburgh. They 
co\cr thirty acres of ground and give employment to 3,000 men. This company is the 
largest manufacturer of wrought-iron pipe in the world. 

The St. Louis house is the supply depot for the Western, Southwestern and Southern 
country. It was established herein January, lS,S4. Although no manufacturing is done by 
it, it has sufficient patronage to keep ten men busily emjiloyed. Mr. Delano, the manager, 
has already popularized the house by his management. He is a thoroughly well posted and 
an obliging gentleman. 




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ST. LOUIS CARRIAGE MANUFACTURING CO. 

Phil. VecUeI,Jr.; HenryAppel, Superintendent; John Kempa; Manufacturers of Carriages, Barouches, 
Buggies, Spring Wagons, etc. : 413 and 415 Spruce Street 

This is a new corporation, organized only during the present year, but the incorporators 
are practical men, who have separately had a number of years' experience in the different 
departments of this important industry. Mr. Phil. Yeckel, Jr., learned his trade and obtained 
special proficiency in the wood-work of carriage making while employed for thirteen years 
with the house of Fred.^'eckcl. Mr. Henry Appel, the Superintendent of the new com]:)any, 
and devoting special attention to the blacksmithing department, is the same who manufactured 




carriages on South Broadway; and John Kempa was, for some time, connected with the 
Henry Timken carriage works. 

Thus the combination is a strong one in practical experience, and having ample resources 
as well, the company has all the elements of success. Already a large local trade in all 
kinds of work in this line has been worked up, and the three-story building, 413 and 415 
Spruce Street, occupied by the firm, has become a hive of industry. The establishment 
already employs twenty-five skilled hands. 

THE ST. LOUIS AND MISSISSIPPI VALLEY TRANS- 
PORTATION COMPANY. 

Henry C. Haarstick, President ; Henry P. Wyman, Secretary; Austin R. Moore, Treasurer : Office, 
Cotton Exchange Building; also on Wharf-Boat, toot of Elm Street. 

Organized in 1866, and consolidated with the St. Louis and New Orleans Transporta- 
tion Company in 1881, this corporation has such relations, not alone with the trade of St. 
Louis, but with the commerce of the whole Mississippi Valley as well, as to make its name 
as thoroughly well known as it is appropriate. It is the principal freight carrier on the 
great river. In bulk grain and heavy packages it has a greater traffic than any other of the 
water routes. Indeed, supplying, as it does, facilities for the trans-shipment of the staples 
to the seaboard, its importance is national as well as local. 

This company now employs 12 towboats and 100 barges in its service, and is constantl}'' 
increasing its fleet with the steady expansion of its already enormous patronage. It main- 
tains offices for the accomodation of shippers at all the principal points on the river. These 
are: 

At New Orleans, La., W. R. Frisbie, Agent; Cairo, 111., J. W. King; Memphis, Tenn., 
C. M. Espy. 

Directly and indirectly, afloat and ashore, this corporation employs about 2,000 men. 
It has 400 engaged in and about St. Louis alone. It has 15 boats that each require 40 hands 
to run. The following figures, in addition to the above, illustrate perhaps more readily the 
extent of this company's traffic. Twenty of its barges have a carrying capacity of 1,200 tons 
each. There are five with a capacity of 1,400, and the rest carry 1,600 tons and over. 
Barges No. 100, 47 and 46 are the largest, each having a capacity for 65,000 bushels of corn. 
When it is remembered that for every five or six barges there is a tug, and that shipments are 



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"made two or three times a week, and at some seasons daily, an idea of the immense business 
•done liy the C()nii)any may jjc ohtained. 

Cupt. James (loud succeeds the late Henry Lourey as Superintendent. lie is thor- 
oughly well qualilied for the task. Mr. Henry (j.Haarstick, J'resident of the Merchants 
Exchange, and notable also in many other j)ublic enterprises, is the President and Managing 
Director of the Transportation Company. Under his management the affairs of both the 
company and its patrons have been conducted with foresight, breadth and liberality. 

ANTHONY & KUHN BREWING CO. 

Henry Anthony, President; Francis Kuhn, Treasurer; Fred G. S(thoenthaler, Secretary: Oflice and 
Brewery, Sidney and IJucl Streets; Denot and Salesrooms, no and m North Hroadway. 

The reputation of St. Louis made lager beer as i)ure, healthful and nutritious, has 
become well established wherever that beverage is imi)ibed. Of late years, too, a very large 
export trade in bottled beer has grown up, this market suj)plying not only a large portion of 

the States and Territories, but exporting to foreign 
lands to no inconsiderable extent. In 1867, Henry 
Anthony and Francis Kuhn, l)oth practical and 
ex])erienced brewers, established themselves in St. 
Louis in a small way, as compared with their pres- 
ent vast enterprise, and their product so grew in 
request and jiopularity that it became necessary to 
greatly enlarge their facilities. Their brewery, 
which now covers a block, with buildings including 
every nioi'.ern convenience and facility, is on Sid- 
ney and Buel Streets, and their up-town depot and 
salesrooms on Ihvjadway are likewise extensi\e. 
Over 100 men are employed in the several depart- 
ments. In 1S.S3, it was deemed best to incorporate 
under the State law, and with the addition of Fred. 
G. Schoenthaler, as Secretary, the Anthony & 
Kuhn Brewing C"om]iany was formed, large in 
experience, facilities and resources. F<jr the excel- 
lence of its pr(;duct, the company has taken various 
premiimis at exhibitions and fairs over the brands 
of other manufactures. The annual business of the 
corporation has increased to about three-quarter million dollars, and in the specialty — bot- 
tling beer for export — about 300,000 kegs a year are utilized. Twenty delivery wagons are 
constantly employed in supplying the city trade with keg and bottled beer, and the XXX 
brand and trade-mark are everywhere known and recognized. The prosperity of the com- 
pany and the extension of its business are due to the practical character and the energetic 
efforts of the executive ofificers. President Anthony, Treasurer Kuhn and Secretary Schoen- 
thaler. 




THE WESTERN FORGE AND TOOL WORKS. 

J. II. Wyeth, President ; J. W.Williams, Vice-President ; Manufacturers of Railroad Track Tools and 

For'^in;;s, Oil and Artesian Well Drilling, Quarry and Mining- Implements, Solid Box Vises, 

Engine and Machine Forging, Bridge and Roofing Bolts ; Cor. Collins and A-shley Streets. 

This company moved into its new Collins Street Building on the 1st of April last. The 
new premises, having been especially prepared for the company's occupancy, are complete in 
all the most recent appliances for the prompt execution of forging and heavy blacksmithing. 
The building of new works, and incorporation under the State law just prior thereto, toget!ier 
intlicating a prosjjcrous and ex])anding business, which seems to be verified by the general 
appearance of the establishment. To the eye of the onlooker all is bustle and activity at 
1220 and 1222 Collins Street. A dozen or more skilled mechanics are performing, with the 
aid of lately improved machinery, what double that number would be required for some time 
since and, in fact, arc engaged ujion in old-fashioned concerns. 

Particular attention is paid at these works to the manufacture of railroad track too's, 
forgings and well-drilling tools. Having been doing this sort of work for five years, they 
have acquired a most excellent run of custom for it from the South and West. The 
Western Forge and Tool Works succeeds the firm of J. W. Williams & Co. ( J. W. Williams 
and J. H. Wyeth ). Its paid-up capital is $S,ooo. Its annual business is twenty times that 
sura. 



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THE KRAFT-HOLMES GROCERY COMPANY. 




J . C. Krait President; J. II. Holme, Vice-President; J. W. Scudder, Secretary; 614 to 620 Xurtli 
Fourth Street; 613 to 619 Xorth Third Street. 

The lirm of Kraft, Holmes & Co., to which this company is successor, hegan merchan- 
dising here in 1872. The magnificent structure occupied by I'.iis house, and shown in the 
illustration on this page, gives perhaps a fairer idea of the extent and scope of the opera- 
- ,i.\ ^.jI : tions of this estab- 

lishment than any de- 
scription. The author- 
ized capital of the cor- 
poration is $150,000. 
Two years ago, prior 
to the incorporation, 
removal was made to 
these grand premises, 
which had been espe- 
cially constructed for 
the business of the 
house, so as to have 
all possible facilities 
for the successful pros- 
ecution of a trade 
reaching all over the 
Western and South- 
western sections of this 
country, and notable 
even so far distant as 
New Mexico. 

No business house 01 its line in the West can advance greater claims for the public 
favor than this one. It has a most creditable history. Its record has been that of a house 
liberal toward its patrons, and straightforward in all its dealings. It is known to have suf- 
ficient capital and resources for any emergency of the times, and is one of those concerns 
that conducts its affairs upon modern and spirited methods. This assertion is Vjest illustrated 
by the fact that of its forty-five employes eighteen are traveling men. It is a model of pro- 
gressiveness and speed. 

A. H. DEWES & CO. 

\\'holesiile Dealers in Furnishing Goods, Notions, Tabic and Pocket Cutlery, Stationery, etc. r 

4?o North Sixth Street. 

This firm was established about a year since at its present location, and within that space 
of time has built up a large and profitable trade. Bot)i partners are experienced business 
men, the senior, A. H. Dewes, having been of the firm of Haggerty & Dewes, in the general 
auction business here for nearly twenty years, and his present associate, Mr. Wm. J. Kene- 
fick, having been connected with the same old house until engaged in this large field of use- 
fulness and profit. 

Their premises, at 420 North Sixth Street, consist of three stories and a basement, well 
stocked with furnishing goods, notions, table and pocket cutlery, and other wares of general 
use, all of the best quality and afforded at reasonable prices.. Five assistants are required 
m pushing trade, which is not only large in the city, but includes leading dealers throughout 
the South and West; and with the energy, experience and enterprise of the firm maybe 
expected to largely increase continually. 

REDMOND CLEARY & CO. 

Commission Merchants: Offices in Chamber of Commerce, Room 124: Warehouse, 26 South Com- 
mercial Street. 

This well-known house, ha\ang offices in the Chamber of Commerce, Chestnut St. side,^ 
and warehouses at No.'26 South Commercial Street, was e.stablishe<l in 1865 by the firm of 
Cleary & Taylor. Mr. Cleary is now sole proprietor of the business. Having been a resi- 
dent of .St. Louis for thirty-six years, Mr. Cleary is pretty thoroughly identified by property 
interests, family connections and other ties with the general progress of the city. He has a 



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wide acquaintance, and has often been solicited to accept public office, but has invariably 
declined, as much from disinclination for the notoriety attached to it as because of the press- 
ure of his business affairs on his leisure. These facts are instanced to illustrate just how- 
busy a man he is. An annual business of $1,500,000, the direction of a trade with Kansas, 

■■"' ■■■ Ti. :.-..:. 7.' „_..._!... 'p ...1 .L_ -■ '- ■ ir of thts State 

000 car- 
Cleary 



uusy tl illilll Jic l.'^. i^il annual ijh.-mii\„3o yji ^ i , •jwv^ji^ww, iiic »^wiccLiun \jl ix 11 ilLlc v% llll 

Iowa, Neliraska, Wisconsin, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, and the interior of th 
(requiring 25 employes, whose wages are $2, coo a month, and the handling of 30. c 

loads of grain and hay yearly), make no small task for one man. Nevertheless, Mr. „ _, 

has discharged all his obligations and performed all the commission services entrusted to him 
for twenty years with signal success and to the entire satisfaction of his patrons. He is 
popular on 'Change for many clever traits. 

THE ST. LOUIS HARD\VARE AND CUTLERY CO. 

Exclusive Jobbers of Hardware and Cutlery; Western Depot for A. R Ilendryx & Co.'s Bird Cages: 
527 aud 529 North Main Street, Cor. Washington Avenue. 

This widely known con- 
cern, incorporated under the 
name which is the caption for 
this account April 15th, 1882. 
The house will be recollected 
as formerly located at 514 
Locust Street (prior to 1883). 
This company is a strong one. 
Its capital is $90,000; its 
annual business with Illinois, 
Missouri and the home mar- 
ket probably $300,000. The 
twenty - five employes, of 
the house draw in salaries 
something like $ 20,000 a 
year. The officers of this 
company are Louis H. Kalle- 
meier. President; Henry Gar- 
lich, Vice - President; \Vm. 
Capelle, Treasurer; August 
Boeger, Secretary — all 
of them gentlemen who have 
lived long in the community, 
and who are thoroughly up 
in the line in which they have 
their capital invested. The 
managing officials of this com- 
pany are particularly accom- 
modating and accomplished 
tradesmen, who will be found 
by intending purchasers most 
satisfactory jnincipals to deal with. 

THE BARNHART MERCANTILE COMPANY. 

Jobbers of Foreign Fruits, Foreign and Domestic Nuts, Canned Goods, etc. ; Specialties — Oranges, 
Lemons, Cranberries, Peanuts, Pecans; 406 and 40S North Second Street. 

This house has been established about eight years and has been incorporated over two 
years. Before the incorporation it was known as the house of Wm. R. Barnhart. That 
gentleman is now the President of the Mercantile Company, with Cary L. Barnhart as Vice- 
President and Treasurer. H. P. Miller holds the office of Secretary for the company. The 
Barnhart Company has transactions yearly running up in the neighborhood of $400,000. 
Twentv-five employes are required by the house to attend to its sales and shipments. In- 
deed, the salaries alone amount to nearly $20,000 a year. 

The handling of oranges, lemons and foreign fruits has been made a specialty by this 
house. That the management has displayed excellent judgment in the selection of these per- 
ishable commodities, is shown by the confidence which shippers and purchasers have in this 
establishment. Consignments, advances and like operations of the produce market had with 
this house may be relied on to be strictly business-like, advantageous and reliable. 




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THE SOUTHERN COOPERAGE COMPANY. 

Leonard Weindel. President and Superintendent; G. A. Will, Vice-President; J. A. Weindel, 

Secretary and Treasurer; Henry Frederick, Assistant Superintendent : Manufacturers of 

Barrels, Kegs and Well Buckets. Office and Factory ; 110 Victor Street; 

Stave and Saw Mill, at Corning-, Ark. 

This extensive establishment was founded in 1864, as the Weindel and Wirthlin Manu- 
facturing Co., the latter named gentleman being the inventor of the first steam machine for 
keg making, also the first wheel stave jointer, in the world, which proved a success. In 1884 




the enterprise was incorporated under the name of the Southern Cooperage Company, manu- 
facturers of tight cooperage, such a barrels, kegs and well buckets. 

It is a very extensive corporation, doing large business all over the United States, and 
utilizing 300x240 feet of ground in St. Louis, as well as an immense tract of land at Corning, 
Ark, wherein is erected a stave and saw mill ; for the company saws all its own staves, em- 
ploying ninety men in that department of the enterprise. The works in this city comprise a 
main building 54x150 feet, and two stories high; two drying houses 30x40 feet each, and an 
iron-clad warehouse 20x300 feet, and two stories high. Railroad tracks run by the works, 
rendering the work of loading much easier. There are engines, boilers and a variety of ma- 
hinery adapted to the purpose. The hands here employed number seventy, and the works 
can turn out from 2,000 to 3,000 kegs daily of every variety. President Leonard Weindel 
is one of the founders of the enterprise, and his associate officers named above also possess 
practical knowledge of the process of manufacturing, added to business enterprise and 
ability of the highest order. The establishment is a credit to the company, to St. Louis and 
to the West. 

THE HUSE & LOOMIS ICE AND TRANSPORTATION CO. 

W. L. Hiise, President : Jas. L. Huse, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer; Wholesale Dealers 
in Ice: 409 "Washington Avenue, Second Floor. 

Three years ago this company succeeded the firm of Huse, Loomis & Co., which had been 
operating for some twenty odd years. The establishment is the greatest in its line having St. 
Louis for a headquarters. The company supplies with ice about all of the Mississippi Valley 
from here to New Orleans. The ice is cut by it at Peru, Kingston and Beardstown on the 
Illinois river; at Alton and Louisiana on the Mississippi; and at Clear Lake, near Spring- 
field, Illinois. In winter, when the company is cutting, some 2,000 men are emphiyed liy it, 
occasionally 2,500 being in its service. It has a paid up capital of $550,000. Ice houses 
are maintained by it in St. Louis for storing the product brought from the headwaters of the 
Illinois and the Upper Mississippi at the following points: Cass Avenue and Barton Street, 
wharf boat foot of Clark Avenue, also at the railroad line corner Tenth and Poplar. The 
yearly cut of ice by this company is about 200,000 tons. 

As its name indicates, this company also does a heavy transportation lousiness with 
barges. It does towing in all the Western waters, and is equipped for this service with six 
towlioats and about fifty barges. P'rom the standpoint upon which this record is based, this 
must certainly be regarded as the representative concern of the trade here. 



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THE MOUND COFFIN CO. 

F. II. Logeman, President; AVm. 11. I..:>gcm;in, Vice-President; L. G. Kregel, Secretar> ; M.mu- 

f;icturers of AVood Hurial Cases and Caskets and General Undertakers' Supplies; 

2000, .1002 and 2004 X. Sicond Street. 

Much Ims been said and written uf late years concerning the expense of interment, and 
possibly there is room for censure where the display of funereal grief has assumed the ex- 
travagant form of indulgence in very expensive metallic caskets by those who can ill afford 

f, the outlay. Vet, it is 

meet and proper that 
due respect should 
he paid to the mem- I 
ory of loved ones, up- 
on their dejiartuic : 
and this tribute can 
be paid in due and 
proper form without 
necessitating an ex- 
travagant outlay be- 
yond the means of 

the surviving and sorrowing relatives,- and with due regard for such becoming display as is 
entirely compatible with the circumstances of the family. 

These reflections, upon a subject in which the entire human family have an mterest, 
are su'^aested by a visit to the mammoth establishment of the Mound Coffin Company, at 
2000, 2002 and '2004 North Second Street, where were seen wood burial cases and caskets, 
as fine and attractive in apj^earance as the best metallic casket used by the most opulent, and 
afforded at a much less figure. 

This company was established in 1882 by Messrs. F. H. Logeman, Wm. H. Logeman and 
L. G. Kregel, its present President, Vice-President and Secretary, respectively. For a new en- 
terprise it" has been remarkably successful, already aggregating over $175,000 in trade an- 
nually and emploving eighty skilled hands in the factory. Here the main building is 75x120 
feet, six stories high, while the engine and dry rooms (30x72) are two stories high. The 
engine is loo horse-power, and there are two boilers. Cloth-covered caskets, very ornate in 
appearance, are made a specialty of, and the trade is now established all over the United 
States. The company's establishment is the largest in the country west of the Mississippi, 
and will turn out five hundred coffins a week. President Logeman is also President of the 
F. H. Logeman Chair Manufacturing Co., a Director of the German- American Bank, and 
holds a like position in the Manufacturers Insurance Co. W. H. Logeman, Vice-President, 
holds a similar position in the Chair Manufacturing Co., while Secretary Kregel is also well- 
known in business circles, and has been connected with the industries of St. Louis for a 
number of years. All three are well-known in commercial circles as active, energetic busi- 
ness men, entirely deserving their prosperity. 

A. McDonald & brother. 

The St. Louis Steam Forge and Iron Works; Manufacturers of Railroad Work, Car Axles, Cranks, 

Connecting Rods, Frames, Pedestals, and every description of I.ocomotive Forging, Steamboat 

Work, Cranks ; Shafts, Beam Straps , Cross-heads, Sugar Mill Shafts, Tobacco Screws, 

etc. : corner Main and Miller Streets. 

In this work, designed to convey to the reader some idea of the industries, resources 
and commercial relations of St. Louis, the aim has been to give consideration only to such 
establishments as may justly be regarded as active elements in advancing the general pros- 
perity. In pursuance of that intention, there has been frequent occasion during the cour-e 
of this compilation to direct attention to the superiority of many local manufactories, and to 
submit facts showing that in the several branches of industry there are establishments here 
that compare most favorably with the largest and best concerns ot the same sort elsewhere. 
McDonalds' St. Louis Steani Forge and Iron Works is one that is entitled to this distinction. 
It is really the oldest forge in the citv, that is to say it is the one that has been longest fn 
continuous operation. It was founded 'in 1S55 and by its present owners; that is, Mr. Alex- 
ander McDonald came to St. Louis in that year to start the business, and Gabriel L. C (hi> 
brother) joined him a vear later. Of course their tirst operations were not upon any suel 
scale as at present. But as time passed and trade was developed in this region it had a healtli- 
ful growth, and by excellent manairement was developed into a great and prosperous manu- 
factory. The forge and the accompanying premises cover an area of 310 by 300 feet, one 



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Howe truss building at the corner of Main and Miller streets being 270 by 130 feet. The 
wages of the 300 hands employed in them average $10,000 per month. The premises are 
one compact mass of expediting and labor saving machinery. There is hardly a corner of 
the West, the South and the Northwest, where heavy machinery is used, that these works 
have not patrons. They certainly do the greatest business of any in the neighborhood of 
St. Louis. 

The principal manufactures are bar iron and railroad axles. A specialty is made of 
shafts for all purposes. Of iron and iron work about forty tons per day is the average out- 
put. The plant of the works includes six steam axle hammers and five axle lathes. The 
facilities are complete and good for an output also of 250 finished railroad axles daily. It 
must be evident from this brief account that the McDonalds have shown more than ordinary 
enterprise in the conduct of their affairs. A thirty years' record is not lightly to be gainsaid. 

PEABODY & STEARNS. 

Architects, of Boston ; St. Louis Representative, P. P. Furber; Turner Building, 304 North Eighth 
Street; Boston, 60 Devonshire Street. 

Messrs. Peabody & Stearns, architects, of Boston, have been represented in St. Louis for 
two years or more by Mr. P. P. Furber, who was their Colorado agent before he came here. 
Peabody & Stearns have a national reputation. The Turner Building in this city, if they had 
done nothing more, would be sufficient to establish them in the front rank of their profession. 
But they have planned and built other magnificent structures in this vicinity that prove this 
is not an exceptional or accidental hit that they have made. The Church of the Messiah, 
the new St. Louis Club House, the Art Museum on Lucas Place, the Pickwick Theatre, the 
West End, the Burrell-Comstock building, and numerous other fine works attest their skill 
and varied accomplishments. They perform services in their line for any part of the country 
and upon reasonable terms. Mr. Furber is prepared to act for them in any part of the West- 
ern country. 

F. H. LOGEMAN CHAIR MANUFACTUI^ING CO. 

F. H. Logeman, President; \Vm. H Logeman, Vice-President; C. A. Logeman, Jr., Secretary; Manu- 
facturers of Cane, Reed, Wood Seat and Split Bottom Chairs: Salesrooms, 1121 and 1123 North 
Sixth Street; Factory, Corner Main and Madison Streets. 

One of the earliest writers, treating of the time when people began to sit at the table 
instead of reclining, as is still the Oriental custom, dates many wonderful events as coming 
in with "the chair era of civilization," as he quaintly phrases it. But it would have puzzled 
even the weird imaginations of the early writers to conceive of the number of chairs now 
daily made and used. Indeed, chair making is a much larger interest than even those of the 
present day who have not made special investigation of the subject can imagine. 

The development of this interest in St. Louis has been very large. For instance, the 
F. H. Logeman Chair Manufacturing Co.'s factory, when running full force, employs 300 
hands, besides effective machinery, and can turn out 500 dozen of chairs — of their special 
make, with seats of one solid piece — in a single week. The history of this mammoth corpo- 
ration, now doing a business of nearly a quarter a million a year, is an eventful one, and 
may be briefly recounted: In 1853, Mr. F. H. Logeman, the President, established himself in 
this line, and two years later admitted to partnership Mr. Conrade, the firm being Conrade 
& Logeman up to 1883, when Mr. C. retired, and the firm was succeeded by the present cor- 
poration, with F. H. Logeman as President; W. H. Logeman, Vice-President; and C. A. 
Logeman, Jr., son of the President, as Secretary. Thus the establishment remains at pres- 
evit, and has extended its trade all over the United States and into Canada and Mexico, 
shipments being made generally in car-load lots, several in a week. The factory is the old- 
est in the city and largest in the West. 

The factory on Main Street and Madison covers a block of ground. There are three 
Iniildings and several dry -houses and a saw-mill; for the company saws its own lumber, and 
makes up none but the best seasoned wood. One of the buildings used is seven stories 
high (75x75); the second, 76x100 feet, and six stories; and the third, four stories, 55x60 
feet. There are three boilers and one engine, of 150 horse-power. The salesrooms at 
1 121 and 1 123 North Sixth Street cover 42x145 feet, are three stories in height and well 
stocked with finished chairs or the various patterns and kinds made by the company. 

President Logeman is also Chief Executive of the Mound Company, which he and his 
brother, W. H. (who is Vice-President), founded, and is a Director of the German-Ameri- 
can Bank and of the Manufacturers Insurance Company. Secretary C. A. Logeman, Jr.. is 
an active and energetic young man — one of the youngest in the city occupying so responsi- 
ble a trust in an enterprise of such a large character and business importance. 



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THE PADDOCK-HAWLEY IRON CO. 

G. P;uiaock, Vrcsidcnt; C. K. PaiUlock, Secretary; Manufaclurtis ami Dealers: So6 to Sio North 

Main Street. 

The capital of this company, $350,000, is an indication of the enormous business trans- 
acted by it, which amounts to $1,000,000 a year. The incorporation succeeded the house 
of Steer & Crawfonl, wliich w a^ originally, upon its establishment twelve years ago, known 

.^ as Paddock, Lea- 

-s&" thyiSiCo. Besides 

the immense stores 
maintained by this 
concern on Main 
Street and Levee, 
" 'arge warehouse, 
Ml which their sur- 
plus stock is car- 
ried, is located on 
the line of the Wa- 
bish Road, be- 
^^ t\\ een Harris and 
1 • ick Streets. 
This house has 
~ patronage ex- 

.'ded in volume 
1 \ but few con- 
cerns of any sort 
11. this vicinity. Its 
shipments go out 
into the whole ter- 
litoryfromSt.Paul 
t" Xew Orleans, 
down into Mexico, 
and so far West as 
^ the Pacific slope. 
It is Western agent 
for the following 








manufacturing companies : n i^r , -.^t , 

Sandusky Wheel Company, Ullin Wood Work Company, Vernon (Ind.) \N ood Work 
Company, Southern Spoke and Handle Company, Fairtield Rubber Company, Juniata Iron 
Nail and Steel Works, Horse and Mule Shoes, Horse Nails (Toe Calks, l)est made),^ Hart- 
ford Spring and Axle Company, Cleveland Spring Company, Cleveland Rolling Mdl Comp y. 

THE CLAFLIN-ALLEN SHOE CO. 

Arthur AV. Allen, President ; Henry W. Peters, Vice-Prebident ; M^ni. F. Miller, Secretary and 
Treasurer; Manufacturers and Jobbers of Boots and Shoes: 70^ .tnd 706 Washington Ave. 

This is an historic house, and the pioneer in the boot and shoe line in St. Louis. Organ- 
ized nearly half a century ago (1838), the establishment has undergone some changes in 
firm name and location, and was once burned out; but the line of trade has continued the 
same, marked only by such changes as the fluctuation in the styles of footwear and an 
increased development of the trade interest demanded. 

Founded by William Claflin, afterwards Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachu- 
setts, the firm name successively was : Howe & Claflin ; Howe, Claflin cS; Cook ; Claflin & Allen: 
Claflin, Allen & Stinde ; Claflin, Allen & Emerson, and Claflin, Allen & Co. The present year 
the establishment was incorporated under the name of the Claflin-Allen Shoe Company, with 
Arthur W. Allen— son of one of the earliest partners, and himself a partner for five years— a- 
President ; Henry W. Peters, for twelve years in the employ of the house, as Vice-President: 
and Wm. F. Miller, also a former salesman and clerk in the establishment, as Secretary ami 
Treasurer. First located on Main Street, the house moved westward with the tradeto its pres- 
ent h<cation in 1S76, but upon inauguration day the succeeding March was burned out. Bui 
the handsome five-story iron and stone front building, 704 and 706 Washington Avenue, wa- 
re-erected speedily, in all its architectural beauty, and the company has since occupied and 
well stocked it with boots and shoes of every conceivable variety, and all of great excellence, 
The basement of the building is utilized for the storage of rubber goods, the specialty of the 



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107 



company in this direction being the unrivalled line of goods manufactured Ijy the I'ara Rub- 
ber Shoe Company, of Boston, Mass., and embracing everything in the way of rubber boots 
and shoes for men, boys, women, misses and children. 

It has constantly been the aim of the Claflin-Allen house to so keep up the standard of 
its wares that the trade-mark and stamp, "Western Hand-Made, Claflin, Allen & Co.," 
found on the soles of their shoes might conscientiously be relied upon as evidencing a good 
article. The founder of the house, Wm. Claflin, removed to Boston in 1845 and established 
Eastern connections for the house. In 1869, the same public spirit he had displayed here 
was recognized in his election as Governor of Massachusetts, but he continued interested in 
the St. Louis house up to the present year. The trade of the house in 1883 exceeded 
$1,000,000, and is constantly increasing; principally in the West and to some degree in the 
Southwest. Fourteen salesmen who travel form a jiart of the office force, which ordinarily 
numbers about twenty-hve. 

THE AMERICAN WINE COMPANY. 

I.sa;ic Cook, President ; D. J. Cook, Secretary : Office, Third and St. Charles Streets ; Cellars on Cass 

Avenue to Garrison. 

Triumphing for many years in ingenuity and practical industry over European nations, 
it has yet not been so freely conceded, u.ilil recent years, that America can compete in 
wine-making with the favored wine districts of France. 

It was reserved for the genius, enterprise and capital of a St. 
Louis gentleman to establish that the wines of the finest vintages of 
France are fully equalled by Cook's Imperial Champagne, made here 
and drank with much satisfaction in all parts of the world by 
connoisseurs in wine. This beverage of unsurpassed purity and flavor 
is made by the American Wine Company, established by Hon. Isaac 
Cook, its President, in 1859, and now doing a business aggregating 
upvvards of a quarter of a million dollars a year; and in the manu- 
facture and sale covering a vast extent of territory. 

How extensive this industry has become let the recital of a few 
statistics, gleaned from the books of the company, attest: The com- 
pany purchases all its grapes in Ohio, and in Sandusky has a press- 
house, where the fruit is pressed and thence shipped here for curing 
and bottling. The cellars in St. Louis, which are the largest in the 
United States (for the company produces more wines and champagne 
than any other in the country), and are the best arranged for that 
purpose, having been built expressly of stone and the finest masonry 
work. From these cellars are shipped about three thousand bottles of 
"Cook's Imperial" daily; a majority, of course, to cities in this 
country, but considerable is exported, as the wine has taken premi- 
ums and awards at Expositions in Europe, and is kept in supply at 
tiie leading hotels and private wine cellars there, as here. Lord 
( hief Justice Coleridge, of England, while visiting America, evi- 
denced a preference for this above all other wines, and on April 19th 
ist wrote President Isaac Cook, enclosing a large order. But to 
leturn to the statistics: The company has a capacity for curing 150,- 
000 gallons at one time; they have a hundred casks that run about 
1,000 gallons each, and several with capacity of five to eight hun- 
dred. They employ their own coopers, who make these casks at the 
cellars. Besides their other under-ground space, they have storage 
capacity for one and a half million bottles, which is full at present, 
and, in fact, always full in season. Of the three cellars, two are about 
forty feet under the surface and the third fifty; all are in size twenty 
feet wide by eighteen feet high and the full length of the building, 
which is 150 feet. The company also has two ice cellars, 40x60 feet 
and fifteen feet high, and the ice cellars above these will hold 500 tons each. The arrange- 
ments for corking are so complete that 10,000 bottles can be corked daily; and the machine 
for washing the bottles can dispose of 12,000 daily; in fact, that number is at present ex- 
ceeded. One man can pack fifty cases of champagne daily. 

The offices and salesrooms of the company are in the wholesale business district, Third 
and St. Charles Streets, and the cellars fronting on Cass Avenue 210 feet, run back 190 feet 
to Garrison Avenue. About forty men are enq^iloyed in the various departments, the pay- 
roll averaging about $500 per week. The business of the company continually increases in 
territorial extent and in quantity sold, and this is a source of pride to Americans. 









THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. IO9 

THE SCHWAB CLOTHING CO. 

M:mufacturers and Jobbers; 803 Washington Aveuue. 

The principals in this house have had a long and valuable experience in the manufacture 
of clothing, having been in this line, in Memphis, Tenn., for fifteen years or more, under 
the firm name of Schwab & Co. They came to St. Louis in 1879, increasing their large 
Southern business by valuable acquisiti-^ns from the West. Their chief shipments are made 
to Arkansas, Texas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Missouri, Illinois and Kansas. 

Anticipating the season of prosperity which dawns, especially upon the Southern States, 
the Schwab Clothing Co. have made unusual efforts to meet the requirements of the fall and 
winter seasons of 1885-86. Their factory is located at 801 & 803 Washington Avenue, where 
they have a large force of cutters and tailors constantly employed. We commend this house 
as worthy of confidence in every respect. 

ANDRE\A/' WARREN. 

Railway Supplies; Agent for the Otis Iron and Steel Co. ; "Standard" Steel Tires ; the Solid Steel Co. ; 
Beland Track Drill Co.; Standard Track Jacks; Circular Track Gauges: 713 N. Second Street. 

This gentleman's business is principally commission. As agent for the standard com- 
panies mentioned in the headlines to this paragraph, he has a first-rate business in all the 
Western and Southwestern States, together with transactions in other parts of the country. 

Mr. Warren has been ten years in his present vocation. He is an old resident, and was 
well-known all over this section, even before his establishment of the house at 713 North 
Second Street, as one of the firm of Warren, Waterman & Co. 

Contractors, manufacturers and others having dealings with Mr. Warren find him a 
most agreeable and satisfactory party to trade with, liberal as to terms, accurate as to 
accounts, and straightforward always. 

HILL, CLARKE & CO. 

Boston and St. Louis: Machinery, Machinists Power Tools, Brass Worker's Machinery, Steam 

Engines, Boilers and Pumps, Wood Cutting Machinery, Shafting, 

Belting and Supplies ; S05 North Main Street. 

Mr. Chas. A. Clarke is the resident Partner and manager of this house. Prior to the be- 
ginning of 1885, the house had been conducted as a branch house with an employe as mana- 
ger. About that date Mr. Clarke came here to give it his personal direction. 

This concern, it is admitted, carries on hand the largest, most"complete, and most varied 
stock of engines and machinery of any located in the West. It is therefore well prepared to 
fill orders in that line with promptness and dispatch. Twenty years of continuous transac- 
tions have shown that its representations are always to be relied upon, and the St. Louis house 
has shown during the three years that it has been in operation, that it is thoroughly well man- 
aged in ever particular. 

THE GOODYEAR RUBBER CO. 

Principal Office, New York City ; St. Louis Branch: No. 400 North Fourth Street; G.B.Thomson, 
Manager; Dealers in all kinds of Rubber Goods. 

Wherever the English language is spoken, and even among tribes in the tropics ig- 
norant of our vernacular, manners and customs, the name of the Goodyear Rubber Company 
is well-known. Its wares have been potent agents of civilization in every clime. Coods of 
this manufacture are sold in every considerable city and town in the country, and, in the 
largest, branch houses are established 

The St. Louis house, a branch of the New York establishment, was founded here in 
1866, and under the capable and energetic management of Mr. G. B. Thomson, the resi- 
dent manager, has so increased its trade from a small beginning that the entire States of 
Missouri, Illinois, Arkansas, and the South have been made tributary to St. Louis in the 
purchase of all kinds of rubber goods. The establishment here, on the corner of Fourth 
and Locust Streets, 30x135 feet, occupies four stories and employs twenty-five salesmen and 
others. 

Mr. G. B.Thomson, the Manager, is President of the St. Louis Natatorium and connected 
with other prominent institutions of St. Louis. He was.the leading spirit last year in arranging 
the great street illumination during Exposition and Fair week, and by his energy was sue- 



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THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 



cessful in overcoming ihe obstacle of the great expense attached to the gala occasion, by in- 
ducing other business men to join Jiim in subscribing and collecting the necessary funds. 
■ During his twenty years connection with St. Louis business interests, Mr. Thomson has ex- 
hibited the largest degree of public enterprise, and is very popular among his fellow mer- 
chants. The Cioodyear Rubber C"ompany is fortunate in lieing so ably represented in the 
West. 

THE MacMURRAY-JUDGE ARCHITECTURAL IRON CO. 

,\. J. Jiulirc, Presiiiciit ;inil General Manager; J . A\'. MaeMurray, Vice-Presiiienl ; I-". \V. Judge, 

Secretary; Wm. Lennox, Treasurer; Manufacturers of Architectural Iron. House and Store 

Fronts a Specialty : Office and Works, Southeast Comer Twenty-first and Papin 

Streets ; Branch Office, 90J Chestnut Street. 

This establishment is one of the oldest as well as one of the largest connected with the 
iron industry of the West. It dates back to 1832, when it was founded by the father of the 
present Vice-President, that tirm of more than half a century ago being MacMurray «.\: 

Pauley. Nec- 
essarily many 
changes in the 
membership of 
the firm took 
place with the 
lapse of time, 
and the increase 
of facilities has 
likewise pro- 
gressed until the 
present company 
has buildings, 
machinery and 
other appurten- 
ances of a large 
manu f ac turing 
enterprise cover- 
ing half a block 
of space, as 
shown in the ac- 
companying il- 
lustration, and 
employs an hun- 
dred or more 
skilled hands constantly. 

With these extensive facilities for architectural iron manufacture, and especially house 
and store fronts, the company has built up a very large trade in the city, throughout this State 
and Illinois, Texas, New Mexico, and the West and Southwest generally. Jail work is also 
one of the specialties of the companv, and a large contract has just been made with the Jeff- 
erson City prison authorities. Another specialty is the making of the P'arrelly .S: Judge pat- 
ent double portable book case for records, libraries, etc. These cases are of sheet iron, 
very fonvenient, moveable and are in use in the Recorder's office, St. Louis; the Superior 
Court, Baltimore: and other places for the preservation of important records. They also 
manufacture the Pigott burglar and fire-proof iron shutter, and their own patent folding and 
extension iron gates and guards for vestibules, elevators, windows, etc., and these have re- 
ceived the highest commend.ition from the leading architects and builders of America. In 
fact, all kinds of iron work that can be used in house building is here made. The personal 
history of the compnny is a very interesting one: A. J. Juilge, the President and General 
Manager, commenced as foreman of the works in 1S57, and steadily progressed to his present 
exalted but fully merited position. His brother. Secretary F. W. Judge, is also a practical 
workman and has been with the company about seven years. Vice-President J W. Mac 
Murray, son of the founder, is Major of Artillery in the U. S. Army, which he entered in 
1861, and is now st;Uioned at Fort Canby, Washington Territory. Wm. Lennox, the Tre;^.-- 
urer, is a practical iron f(.)under, and is senior of the tirm of Wm. Lennox & Co., who own 
foundry at Mattoon, Illinois, where they reside. He learned his trade with Ross Winans in 
locomotive building, and had a machine shop at Columbus, Ohio. About four years ago he 
became interested in the MacMurray-Judge Company. The works of the company are at 
Twenty-first ami Papin Streets, where the main office is also located; a branch down-town 
office being maintained at 902 Chestnut Street. 




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Ill 



ISIDOR BUSH & CO. 



American "VVinc Pcpot, 213 and 215 



South Seconu Street: 
Bushberg, Mo. 



Vineyavtls anil Clva^e Xmseries, at 




The growth in favor of native wines is, in 
the Mississippi Valley, largely due to this old- 
established house and American wine depot. 
Originally founded in 1850, by Isidor Bush and 
Charles Taussig, Senior, the firm remained, up 
to 1862, Bush & Taussig, Dealers in Groceries 
and Liquors, but subsequently became Isidor 
Bush & Co., and since 1S69 devoted atten- 
tion to native wines, making that industry 
the specialty of the house. The enthusiasm of 
the founder of the establishment was shared 
by his son Ralph, and Louis Klein, who be- 
_^=^ came in time his business partners, and the 
1^= interest continued to develop. The establish- 
ment at 314 Elm Street was very complete, 
but it was destroyed by fire, and the firm at 
once commenced the erection of the magnifi- 
cent four-storv building now just completed at 
213 and 215 South Second Street, and cover- 
ing 28x160 feet of space. The substantial 
ed'itice was especially constructed with exten- 
sive arched wine vaults, adapted to the storage 
of large quantities of wines and liquors. 

Mr. Bush, Sr., is a universally acknowl- 
edged authority on native grape culture, and, 
in connection with his son and Gust. E. Meiss- 
ner, owns and manages extensive vineyards and 
arape nurseries at Bushberg, Jefferson Coimty, 

,_ Slo , where the the fruit for his pure native 

wines IS .nnwn From these nurseries, Messrs. Isidor Bush and son and Meissner furnish 
he voni^ vines for nearly all the vinevards of the country. They issue a " Grape Growe^^s 
Manual"' Third Edition), which is highly endorsed by eminent horticulturists, and tiansla- 
t'ions of thiiV book on Ani^rican Grapet were lately published in ^-ce Italy and G^^^^^^^^^^ 
This valuable publication also contains hints on wine makmg. Mr. Bush is distinguisnea 
for his eminent social qualities, no less than for his public enterprise. 

S. J. LANG & SONS. 

Importers at^d Wholesale Liquor Dealers, and Manufacturers of Cigars; 

It is now some sixteen years since the senior member of this firm, then a successful mer- 
chant ot Rolla, Mo., removed to St. Louis and established himself in the wholesale liquor 
line in the latter place. Thoroughly experienced as he was in mercantile affairs, he prospered 
none the less in his new and enlarged field, and to-day the house of S. J Lang .V Sons (tor 
he has three sons in partnership with him) ranks with the hrst wholesale concern, of this 
vicinity in point of caiiital, credit, resources and transactions. ^ i k„ 

?L sons have bLn five years members of the firm. P'-«-°"«ly .^'^^>Vr'"!,-T'S sh- 
it All three of them travel for it. An idea of the immense trade enjoyed by this e-tabli.h- 
ment may be got from the fact that from 20 to 30 men are kept constantly employed by it, their 
salaries ranging somewhere in the neighborhood of $1 ,500 per month. Southwest 

The parrunage of the house comes mostly from Missouri, Arkansas ^"f^^^^ South^^ est 
where its standaid - Red Ribbon" whiskey is the favorite over fH "ther biands Besides 
this, however, the house carries at all times a full and complete f ^^^^^ ^'^^l^ ^"SLfch^m- 
of the still and wine press, including all the leading brands o ^^'^iskies, bian hes cham 
pagnes, bitters and also mineral waters. The second and third floors of Messi. Lang *. 
Sons' premises in St. Louis are occupied by their cigar factory Nonebu experienced 
workmen are employed therein, and the choice productions of their labor aie sold at the most 

reasonable rates. . , .,, • ^ ,„f„i nmmnf 

Purchasers at a distance can rely upon it that their orders will receive •^^'•^^^ ' P;«™P* 
and accurate attention, and that as fair treatment will be accorded them as is given to parties 
nearer at hand. Honorable methods only are characteristic of this house. 



205 Xorth Main Street. 



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PIPE 
COUAR 



O'CONNOR & HARDER FURNACE AND RANGE CO. 

K. J. ("»'Connor, President aiul Treasurer; A. Harder, \'icc-PrL'si>.ient ; J . H, Xiederman, Secretary; 

Manufacturers of and Dealers in Furnaces, Stoves, Ranges and House 

Furnishing Goods, 615 Olive Street. 

As a corporation this establishment has existed but a little over a year, but prior to that 
the rresidciu ami Vice-Presiilent had composed the firm of O'Connor & Harder, and had 
operated in the same line of trade for ten years, with profitable result. In 1S84 the com- 
pany organized with a working capital of 
$35,000, and an official directory composed of 
Ea. J. O'Connor, President; A. Harder, Vice- 
President: and J. H. Niederman, Secretary. 
In fall, when busy, the company employs about 
forty men, and the city trade, as well as that in 
the interior of this State and Illinois, is at all 
seasonable periods quite large. 

Furnaces are the principal wares dealt in, 
and the establishment hamllcs all of Fuller, 
Warren & Co.'s (Troy, N. V.) make of goods 
for this State, including the celebrated Ruby, 
Pearl, Columbia and Crystal furnaces, in brick 
setting and i^ortable form, suitable for the largest 
public or private buildings; also the splendid 
Fireplace furnace, and the splendid base burner 
stoves and Diamond A ranges. 

The company also keeps in stock all kinds 
of kitchen furnishing goods, table cutlery, etc. 
Messrs. O'Connor and Harder are both prac- 
tical men, understanding the business in all its 
details. They give personal attention to con- 
tracts for public buildings and all large con- 
tracts; hence do the largest business in the city 
in the line of tuinace hcatiiii;. Among the public buildings and private mansions they have 
so fitted are the Second Presbyterian and the Lafayette Presliyterian churches; St. John's and 
St. Laurence O'Toole's parochial schools; the Executive Mansion and the capitol buildings 
at Jefferson City; St. Vincent's academy; Gen. W. T. Sherman's residence; those of Ex- 
Mayor Overstolz, A. F. Shapleigh, F. G. Neidringhaus and others. President O'Connor is 
something of an enthusiast regarding the development of Olive Street as a business thorough- 
fare, lie smarted the first stove store on the street, and is still persuaded that it will lead all 
others in tlie city. Parties contemj^lating putting in furnaces, or ert^cting new buildings, 
should not fail to call on the above well-established house. Catalogues will be sent free to 




any address on apjilicatiou. 



THE HOLMAN PAPER BOX CO. 

W. H. Holinan, President; M. P. Holnian, Secretary; J. 1?. Hoiman, Treasurer: Manufacturers of all 
kinds of Paper Boxes, Xo. 2 South Commercial Street, St. Louis. 

This company succeeded the King Patent Paper Box Co., which was organized in iSSo, 
for the manufacture of paper boxes. The change of name was merely an incidental event, 
and did not in any manner affect the business aff.airs of the concern. Although this is a 
comparatively new establishment, the business now amounts to about $75,000 a year, and is 
steadily increasing. There are about seventy-five hands employed by the company. 

The market for the Hoiman Company's manufacture is found in all the country tributary 
to St. Louis. The marked ability with which the affairs of this company have been con- 
ducted is producing its legitimate fruits. Indeed, this is the largest Paper Box Factory West 
of the Mississippi River, and its products are second to none in quality. The company have 
recently added to their very complete machinery, immense box-covering machines which are 
the most valuable that have been invented for this line of work, and which secure to them an 
especial advantage, as they largely reduce the cost of production. This company owns the 
exclusive right to their use in St. Louis. Consumers of paper boxes will no doubt conserve 
their interests by giving this concern a call before giving new orders. Our knowledge of 
their superior advantages induces us to guarantee that their customers will be more than 
satisfied. 



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II 



THE CONSOLIDATED ICE^MACHINE CO., OF CHICAGO. 

Maiuifacturcrs of Ice M:vkint,' ami Refrigerating- Miichincry ; J. W. Skinkle, PrcsiiU-iU ; Win BushncU, 

Secretary; J. Koenigsberg, Assistant Secretary ; I-eo Rassieur, Vicc-Presiilent : 

Rooms 6 and 7, No. 919 Olive Street, St. Louis, Mo. 

Tills establishment is a branch of the consolidated company bearing the name at the 
Jiead of this notice. The managers here are Assistant Secretary Koenigsberg, and Vice- 
President Rassieur. The Chicago company is a consolidation of tlie interests and business of 

Messrs. Skinkle 
& Bushnell, late 
President and 
Secretary of the 
Poyle Ice Ma- 
chine Company 
of Chicago, and 
of Messrs . E. 
Jungenfeld, Leo 
Rassieur and 
Jos. Koen igs - 
berg, late officers 
of the Enipite 
Ref riger a ting 
coin])any of St. 
Louis. The con- 
soliilated com- 
pany is incorpo- 
rated under the 
laws of the State 
of Illinois, with 
a cash capital of 
$200,000. The 
Consolidated Ice 
Machine Com- 
pany is engaged 

in manufacturing ice making and refrigerating machinery for breweries, packing houses, dis- 
tilleries, oil refineries, cold storage houses, dairies, soap works, and kimlred industries in all 
parts of the world. Circulars and estimates are furnished by it upon application. 

All the first-class breweries of the country now use refrigerating machines. It is about 
ten years since ice making machines were first marketed, and a year or two later the intro- 
duction of the first refrigerating machines took place. As is well-known this apparatus has 
revolutionized the brewing and otlier industries requiring a cool atmosphere for successful 
production. The consolidated company is prepared to furnish either the "Boyle Pattern"' ver- 
tical machine, with single acting ammonia compressors, or the " Empire Pattern" horizontal 
machine, with double acting ammonia compressors. Its line of patterns covers both the adjust- 
able cut off, slide valve form of engines, and also the latest improved Corliss automatic cut 
off valve motion. It guarantees all of its machines, both as regards materials and workman- 
ship employed in their construction, durability, capacity of machine, and the maximum 
amount of fuel and water necessary to operate the same. It will replace, at its own expense, 
any defective materials or workmanship found in the construction of its machines, and in the 
event of the machine not fulfilling its guarantee will remove the same at no cost to the pur- 
chaser, and will refund any and all moneys that may have been received on account of same. 
It tloes not build a cheap viac//iiic, as regards first cost, but in the long run its machines have 
proven to be the chea]iest machine in the market to the purchaser. 

Machines have been furnished the following parties by this company since its organiza- 
tion and consolidation in September, 1SS4: Fred Opperman, jr.. Brewer, New York, N. V. ; 
F. & M. Schaefer Brg. Co., New York, N. Y.; A. H. Warthman & Co., Packers, Phila- 
delphia, Pa ; F. Schenk & Sons, Packers, Wheeling, W Va.; Paul Reising, Brewer, New 
Albany, Ind.; P. Schoenhofen Brewing Co., Chicago, 111.; Gottfried Brewing Co., Chicago, 
111. ; Green Tree Brewery Co., St. Louis, Mo. ; J. L. Hoerl^er Brg. Co., Chicago, 111. ; Schill- 
ing & Schneider Brg. Co., St. Louis, Mo.; Chas. G. Stifel Brg. Co., St. Louis, Mo ; Ex- 
celsior Brg. Co., St. Louis, Mo.; Muennig & Zuentner, Brewers, Joplin, Mo ; Crystal Ice 
Co., Little Rock, Ark.; J. L. Millspaugh, Brownwood, Texas; National Brg. Co., San Fran- 
cisco, Cal.; H. Weinhard, Brewer, Portland, Oregon ; John Weihman, Brewer, Philadelphia, 
Pa.; Tennessee Brewing Co., Memphis, Tenn. 

This company also built the machines used by the Southern Brewing Company of New 
Orleans, and by the following St. Louis breweries : Anheuser-Busch, La Fayette, Hyde 




114 THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 

Park, Green Tree, Excelsior, Stifel's, and Klaussman's. Ice making machines have been 
shipped by it to Brazil, Mexico, Jamaica, and other foreign parts, where they are now in suc- 
cessful operation. Mr. Rassieur, of the St. Louis management, has taken the place of the 
late Mr. Edmund Jungenfeld, who devoted the best of his years towards the perfection of 
this class of machinery. Mr. Koenigsberg, now a resident of California, has special charge 
of the management of this branch. His time, however, is in part taken up in traveling for 
the company, he holding himself ready at all times, when desired, to visit such establish- 
ments as may be considering the advisability of procuring this progressive and indispensable 
improvement for their machinery. 

THE MITCHELL FURNITURE CO. 

W. Mitchell, President; W. J, S. Mitchell, Secretary and Treasurer: 607 North Fourth Street. 

The house of Mitchell, Remmelsburg & Co., to which this company is successor, was 
established away back in the fifties. From 1864 until 1872, the year of incorporation, it 
was R. & W. Mitchell. This company manufactures and retails mostly for the local trade, 
but has a fair trade also with the country districts. The fire in the premises at Twenty-third 
and Lucas Avenue brought it to the present location in March last. Here they occupy five 
stories, and carry as large and varied a stock as any Western house. 

• This business has been sufficiently successful to acquire an accumulated capital of 
$i55,cxx). That sum, too, was just about the amount of last year's transactions. Here- 
after an attempt will be made to do a greater business, because now the company is under 
greater expense. From present prospects, there seems to be no doubt that such will be the 
case. 

As an illustration of the capital and resources behind this concern, it need only be said 
that the senior Mitchell is the owner of the well-known Mitchell building property in St. 
Louis. 

CASSIDY BROS. & CO. 

Successors to " Irons & Cassidy and Scruggs & Cassidy," Live Stock Commission Merchants and 
Forwarding Agents: National Stock Yards, St. Clair County, Ills. 

"With this issue " (March 27th last), says Our JFec^/y Z.e//^;', a little journal issued 
every Friday by the house of which this account treats, "the firm of ' Irons & Cassidy and 
Scruggs & Cassidy,' consolidated, goes out of existence — the co-partnership expiring by 
limitation — Messrs. D. S. Irons and M. D. Scruggs retiring from the business, both being in 
poor health." 

The original firm, before the consolidation referred to, was Irons, Cassidy & Co. — A. C. 
and W. L. Cassidy and D. S. Irons, who began in 1868 at the Broadway yards, when the 
commission (live stock) business was yet in its infancy. The next year John T. Berry was 
admitted, and the firm so continued until 1872, when W. L. Cassidy withdrew and forme 1 a 
co-partnership with M. D. Scruggs. Just about that time the great panic of 1873 swept 
over the country, paralyzing nearly every monied and business interest, from New York to 
California. The two firms prospered despite disaster to others. While banks and other 
monied institutions were forced to close their doors, their checks were taken by customers, 
and carried, in some instances, several months after business was resumed. When the good 
times returned the two firms joined hands and became one, under the firm name of Irons & 
Cassidy and Scruggs & Cassidy, consolidated, which was composed of the four original 
members, with two additions, in the persons of T. F. Timmons and N. M. Moody. That 
was the firm to which Cassidy Bros. & Co. are successors. 

All of this firm are practical cattle-men. For convenience they have divided the 
management as follows: A. C. Cassidy and T. F. Timmons, cattle salesmen; N. M. Moody 
and W. L. Cassidy, hog and sheep salesmen; T. B. Patton, traveling and traffic manager. 
Mr. A. C. Cassidy has been prominent in the trade since his arrival here in 1868. Mr. Tim- 
mons came here in 1876. He has never been in any other line. Mr. Moody has had about 
the same residence here. W. L. Cassidy has been book-keeper for the firm, collector, hog 
and sheep salesman at different times since its foundation. " Irons & Cassidy & Scruggs & 
Cassidy" sold last year 240,000 hogs, 55,833 cattle and over 40,000 sheep, or about 
$8,000,000 worth of business. Cassidy Bros. cS: Co. make, with their increased resources 
and combined patronage, about the strongest firm engaged in the line here. It may be re- 
marked here incidentally, that this concern, under the various titles which it has had, has 
handled during the past sixteen years $150,000,000 of other people's money, and it has 
never been said that one cent belonging to patrons has been withheld or diverted from its 
proper purpose. 



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NEWCOMB BROS. WALL PAPER CO. 

Geo. A Newcomb, President; Frank S.Newcomb, Secretary : Jobbers of Wall Paper, Curtain Materials, 
etc. ; 303 and 305 North Broadway. 

This enterprise dates back to 1852, and its parentage to Boston, Mass., where Mr. Nor- 
ton Newcomb, Jr., was engaged in manufacturing wall paper and jobbing same. In 1864 the 
jobbing business was transferred to St. Louis, and the house was one of the first to locate 
upon the now popular thoroughfare — Broadway. Its growth since has been steady and rapid 
until the present time. It is now ranking as one of the first and largest in the United States 
in their specialties, viz.: Paper Hangings, Window Shades and Curtain materials generally.' 
In addition to the five-story and basement buildings, 303 and 305 North Broadway, occupied 
by them as offices and retail salesrooms, they also occupy for storage purposes a warehouse, 
90x160. Their business has extended to every city, village and hamlet in the South and 
West, and their reputation for always keeping the best of goods at the lowest prices " has 
become a household word." The house has sixty skilled employes, and their facilities for 
the rapid filling of all orders have made them a model for competitors. 

CHESTER & KELLER MANUFACTURING CO. 

E. S. Chester, President; Theo. Tamm, Vice-President; Geo. Keller, Secretary and Treasurer. 

Manufacturers of Handles, Spokes and Wood Work; Specialty of Wagon and Buggy Wood 

Work Parts: Victor Street, Northeast Corner of Main. 

This establishment, the only one in this State that manufactures hard wood handles and 
spokes, was founded in 1870, by the Chester & Harris Manufacturing Company, but two 
years ago, upon the withdrawal of Mr. Harris, it was re-incorporated, under the name of the 
Chester & Keller Manufacturing Company, the founder of the house, E. S. Chester, remain- 
ing as President, with Theo. Tamm as Vice-President, and Geo. Keller, who had been with 
the old company ten years, as Secretary and Treasurer. The capable Superintendent, 
Charles E. Sargent, was also retained upon the re-incorporation of the company. 

How extensive an enterprise this is may be judged from the following facts: The prem- 
ises occupied cover 350x600 feet of ground, upon which is erected a two-story factory 
100x150 feet, together with large warehouses and drying houses. Three boilers are used, two 
engines of 250 horse-power, and a variety of machinery. A hundred and seventy-five men 
are employed, and 5,000 axe-handles and 5,000 spokes are turned out daily. Twenty lathes 
are constantly moving, and taking all work together — including the specialties of hickory and 
oak handles and spokes — from 30 to 40 cords of timber are worked up daily. But besides, 
the St. Louis factory has four branches, at Idlewild and Mt. Glenn, Illinois, and Carbon- 
dale, 111., and Oran, Mo., and these give employment to 150 men. A large force of men is 
constantly employed in the woods cutting timber, which is shipped to the St. Louis factory by 
river and rail. The aggregate trade of the company exceeds $300,000 a year. 

President E. S. Chester, founder of the enterprise, came to St. Louis from Mound City, 
111., where he inaugurated the work since so largely developed. Theo. Tamm, the Vice-Presi- 
dent, is the chfef executive officer of the St. Louis Wooden Ware Company. Secretary Kel- 
ler is a thoroughly experienced and active business man, while Superintendent Sargent is an 
especially skilled workman in this line. So continues the enterprise in its career of pros- 
perity, daily increasing in the extent of its trade and in the excellence of its wares, which 
are already staple and standard throughout the West, South and North. 

THE PACIFIC WAREHOUSE CO. 

L. A. Brown, President; Receiving Storage and Forwarding: Spruce Street, Ninth to Tenth, Two 
Blocks East of the Union Depot. 

This company makes a specialty of transferring and forwarding machinery for the East- 
ern agricultural manufacturers and dealers, also of the storage of seed, wire, flour, etc. The 
railway tracks from the depot near by run right into this warehouse. It has greater storage 
capacity than any warehouse in St. Louis. 

This is the same property that was formerly occupied by Ringo & Edmunds as a tobacco 
warehouse. President Brown was the founder of the Hamilton-Brown Machine Company, 
but has severed his connection with that concern. He has lived here more than twenty years, 
and was in the machinery traffic until he began to operate as the representative of the East- 
ern manufacturers (January, 1885). Insurance will be effected for patrons at the lowest 
rates. The warehouse is located on the bridge and tunnel tracks. 



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GEO. J. FRITZ. 

Ceiitiiil Iron Works; Manufacturer of Patent Steam Engines, Doctors, ]'>rewers' Air Pumps, Mill 

(Jearing, Meal Moulders, Cotton Seed Hullers, Supplies, and General Machinery: 

2022 to 202S South Third Street. 

As the illustration indicates, this is an establishment very large in the extent of its in- 
dustrial works as well as in its trade. It is fitted up with a great variety of machinery, not 
only in the way of large boilers and powerful engines, but in extra large apparatus and tools 
for boring, turning and planing. 




Yet the works were not always so extensive, for when Mr. Geo. J. Fritz assumed con- 
trol in 1874 they were only forty feet front. Since then he has so enlarged them that they 
now occupy 150x145 feet, and are two stories in height. His is a wide range of manufacture, 
and includes engines, doctors, crushing rolls, coopers' machines, electric light engines (many 
of his own invention), and, in short, all kinds of machinery. Another special feature of the 
factory is the department for regrinding and corrugating millers' rolls, of which he will turn 
out six per day. 

Many of the largest industrial establishments in St. Louis have been equipped with 
machinery by Mr. P'ritz. He furnished the improvements in Wm. J. Lemji's brewery, the 
Anheuser-Busch brewery, and all the machinery except the engine pumps and ice machinery 
in the newWainwright brewery. With a force of seventy-five men, he has so extended the 
trade of the Central Iron Works that it now extends all over the United States, reaches 
$75,000 a year, and with the enlarged facilities can care for $100,000 trade. Mr. Fritz is a 
practical workman, as well as jiossessed of rare aljility in pushing business. He issues a trade 
catalogue, which is a decided work of art. 

P. LEHMANN. 

Beef Packer; .Steamboats Supplied; 216 Xorth Commercial and 210 North I^evee. 

Among the numerous industries that grow out of the river traffc, not the least is the one 
to which the subject of this sketch devotes himself. Thirty years back Mr. P. Lehmanu 
was a clerk for Duncan Carter, Beef Packer and Steamboat Butcher. Four years later he 
ventured on his own account, and was entirely successful in establishing a first-rate business, 
which has since gradually but surely expanded until he has a trade amounting yearly to 
$150,000 or more. Sui>i>lying the best of the river lines with meats, he is obliged to carry 
large stocks at times, and for this purpose his premises at the number and street as above 
are roomy and convenient to the water front. There, too, he has, for the better conduct and 
facilitatitm of his trade, an immense 50-ton refrigerator. The quality of meats demanded by 
the patronage he caters to requires an expert know ledge of the business, and this he is 
admitted to have. One of his specialties is the favorite Fulton Market Mess Beef, tlie prime 
characteristics of which are well known and ei]ually well appreciated. 



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THE ST. LOUIS MANUFACTURING CO. 

Ch;i^. "W. liehrens, President; John H. Douglass, Vice-President; X. C. Chapman, Treasurer; Henrv 
Meyer, Secretary : N. W. Corner of Tenth and Mullanphy Streets. 

The principals in this establishment are all of them connected by business interests with 
the great lumber companies of the city also, so that the mill has strong capital and resources 
behind it. Mr. Behrens, the President of the company, is also Secretary of the Schulenberg 

& Bueckler 
Luml)er Com - 
p a n y ; Mr. 
Douglass, the 
Vice-President, 
is Treasurer of 
the Knapp- 
Stout Lumber 
Comjiany; Mr. 
Chapman, the 
Treasurer, is 
Treasurer of the 
Eau Claire 
Lumber Co.; 
Mr. Meyer is of 
the John Meyer 
Lumber Com - 
pany. 

The St. Louis Manufacturing Company's mill was first started about five years ago, as 
the Mullanphy Planing Mill. Although now run under a different name, it is still engaged 
in the manufacture of sash, doors, blinds, mouldings, brackets, door and window frames, 
and in builders' material generally. The employes number 125 men. The company finds its 
best trade in supplying city, Illinois and Missouri patrons. 

Mr. A. Boetticher is Manager of this mill, and Mr. F. Lohse, Superintendent. The 
former gentleman is a New Yorker. He is entrusted with the company's financial affairs, 
whilst Mr. Lohse has charge of the mechanical departments. He attends to the manufac- 
turing, makes contracts, buys for the company, etc. He has been with the company since 
they have been running the mill — two years — and is considered an expert in his line. 

This mill undoubtedly leads all in its line here, both in the amount of manufactured 
stock carried by it, as well as in the extent of its annual transactions. A business exceed- 
ing $200,000 a year is done by it. 

THE WESTERN NAIL CO. 

Principal Office at the Works, Belleville, 111. ; Gen. W. H. Powell, President and General Manager; 

C. Rienecke, Vice-President and Treasurer; H. L. Powell, Secretary; E. B. Powell, General 

Superintendent; Jos. I. Swan, St. Louis Ag-ent: City Office, iiS Locust Street. 

The figures of its production, expense, etc., given below, seem to verify the claim of this 
company that it is the greatest manufacturer of nails in this country. At the works in Belle- 
ville, 111., fourteen miles distant from St. Louis, on the L. & N. R. R., 350 men are em- 
ployed. The average monthly pay-roll is $20,000. The production of nails is over 9,000 
kegs a week, and the annual business transacted is rather above than less than $1,000,000. 
For wages, iron and coal, the expense is in the neighborhood of $30,000 per month. There 
are 154 nail making machines at these works, run by two immense engines, each sufficient to 
supply power to 100 machines. The engine that runs the machinery of the rolling mill is 
about 250 horsepower. The iron worked up in a day amounts to 80 tons. 

The manufacture of nails was commenced by Gen. Powell in September, 1882. From a 
beginning with but forty-five machines and $50,000 capital, the plant and resources have 
been increased with the expansion of the trade, until now the company has 154 machines and 
$200,000 capital. The Western company are making iron nails now exclusively, but will 
manufacture steel nails so soon as the demand becomes imperative therefor. The company, 
at present, can dispose of all the iron nails the works produce, the territory West of the 
Mississippi and in the direction of Memphis, Nashville and Kuoxville offering an ample field. 
The surprising growth of the company's business proves the superiority of its productions. 

The company is now erecting a steel plant for the manufacture of steel nails, and con- 
templates an increase of their productive capacity to equal 2,500 kegs per day as soon as this 
new plant is completed, which is expected to be in operation early in September, 1885. 



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ST. JAMES HOTEL. 

Corner of Fifth and ■\Valiiut Streets: Thos. P. Miller, Proprietor. 
Less pretentious in style than some of the other first-dass caravansaries in .St. Louis, 
and much more reasonable in its prices, the .St, James Hotel is, at the same time, one of the 
most comfortable, convenient and home-like places of puljlic entertainment in this section. 

Most eligibly locat- 
ed, convenient to the 
leading theatres, and 
to car lines running 
to the public parks, 
gardens and fair ; 
grounds, it also pre- 
sents the advantage ' 
of being conducted \ 
on both the Ameri- 
can and European 
plans, so that the 
guest may choose a 
lodging - room and , 
take his meals, at | 
such hours as suit 
his convenience, at 
the well - kept res- 
taurant of the hotel, ' 
or eat at the public 
table at the regular hours for meals. 

Established about fifteen years ago, it has passed through various hands, includino' 
those of A. S. Merritt, Ex-Mayor Brown, Col. Richard Boyle and others; but within the 
last three years, and under the energetic management of Mr. Thomas P. Miller, the present 
proprietor, the hotel has been enlarged and improved, as well as being advanced to a rank 
among the most prosperous and well-kept hostelries in the West. So enlarged, the St. 
James is I So feet front on Fifth Street or Broadway, and 190 feet deep on Walnut Street; 
has 200 rooms and accommodations for from 300 to 400 guests. The employes number 
about an hundred, and the hotel is fitted up with all commercial conveniences, such as a tele- 
graph office, news stand, elevators, etc. The hotel has some boarders, for it has great local 
popularity, but its patronage is largely transient, and the traveling public generally recog- 
nizes the advantages it affords, of first-class entertainment at the reasonable rate of $2 a day. 

SCHREINER, FLACK & CO. 

Commission Merchants : 210 antl 212 North Commercial Street. 

Mr. J. Schreiner, who was formerly in the milling business at Manchester, Mo., and 
Mr. Chas. E Flack, at one time an insurance agent at Jacksonville, Ills., are the partners in 
this house. The firm has been operating since 1880, with such success that, although it 
made but a moderate beginning, it now does a business of not less than $600,000 a year. 
Grain and hay are said to be its specialties. 

It has firmly established itself in a strong patronage in these staples. But few of the 
houses that compete with it enjoy so fully the confidence and esteem of their customers. 
This is because of the straight-forward, open and above-board course that has l)een pursued, 
without exception, by this house since its foundation. 

JOHANSEN BROS. 

Manufacturers of Ladies', Misses' and Cliildren's Boots and Shoes: iioo Olive Street. 
Beginning but moderately on Sixth and Franklin Avenue about eight years ago, the 
brothers Johansen have acquired a patronage that is best indicated by the number of em- 
ployes they have engaged in manufacture — some 50 altogether. Their business methods are 
illustrated, too, in the fact that many of the firms whom they supplied at the start still patron- 
ize them, thus showing their reliability. M. Johansen, the elder brother, came here from 
Norway, where he learned his trade about fifteen years ago. He is known to the trade here 
as being a skillful mechanic, having proven himself to be such before he went into Inisiness 
for himself. His brother is also a first-class artisan. The firm is one of the leading ones 
in their line of industry. Besides a good local traffic, they supply customers in Illinois, 
Kansas ana Arkansas. The brothers are stockholders in the Exposition. 



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119 




THE HOWE MACHINE CO. 

H. Brinsmade, St. Louis Manager: 921 Olive Street. 

The cut below represents the works of the original and only Howe Sewing Machine 
Company, which are located at Bridgeport, Connecticut. These works employ, when running 
on full time, from 2,000 to 3,000 hands. The machine manufactured by this company is the 

only one which, through various 

•- improvements, can be traced 

-- ' ^"■. . back to the remarkable and 

world renowned invention of 
Elias Howe. All the others, 
as is notorious, are infringe- 
ments upon his invention. 

This company dates from 
1846, the year of Howe's in- 
vention. The St. Louis branch 
has been established since 1867. 
Its trade is from all the country 
West of the Mississijipi and 
Northward, excepting Minnesota, 
Dakota and Iowa, which have a 
separate agency. The Howe is 
the best finished and most com- 
plete sewing machine of them all, making the most perfect stitch of any. 

Mr. Brinsmade has been connected with the company for nigh fifteen years, and is 
thoroughly devoted to its interests as well as to those of its patrons. Before coming to St. 
Louis, eight years ago, he was in charge of the company's New York business. 

GEO. J. SCHULTE & CO. 

General Commission Merchants : iS North Commercial Street. 

From 1857, until December of 1884, Mr. Geo. J. Schulte, who is now the proprietor at 
18 North Commercial Street, was in partnership with John J. Hilger (Feed and Commis- 
sion), at 1210 Biddle Street. Mr, Schulte makes a specialty of the hay and grain line, sell- 
ing these staples on 'Change and produce at his store. He ships a great deal of hay, mostly 
to New Orleans, but also largely to other parts of the South, Owing principally to his own 
intelligent and generous business efforts, Mr. Schulte has been measurably successful in 
retaining the confidence of those with whom he formerly had dealings while one of the house 
of Hilger & Co., and the wide acquaintance thus gained makes up a large part of his pres- 
ent patronage. His house can therefore hardly be considered a new one, but is rather a 
mere change of name and situation. 

Messrs. Schulte & Co. refer, by permission, to the Northwestern Savings Bank, of St. 
Louis. Orders from country customers for all kinds of merchandise promptly filled at the 
lowest market rates. Consignments solicited, and liberal advances made thereon when 

bill of lading is attached to draft. 

HENRY GAUS & SONS. 

North St. Louis Planing- and Moulding- Mill; Sash, Door, Blind and Box Factory: Scroll Sawing,, 
Turning and other machine work: S. E. Corner Main and Clinton Streets. 

This establishment dates back to 1863, when Henry Gaus, senior of the present firm, 
who had been working at his trade, box making, started a small planing mill on Sixteenth St. 
and Cass Avenue. His sons were of the same industrious and enterprising turn of mind 
and grew up with the new factory, which grew in size with the expansion of trade, until it 
was 75x130 feet and three stories high. In 1878, Henry Gaus, Jr., was admitted to the firm, 
and during the present year his younger brother, F. J., was also taken into partnership. 

In August, 1884, the mill was destroyed by fire, but neither Henry Gaus, Senior, nor 
his sons were dissuaded from continuing the business. They built a larger factory at their 
present stand, corner of Main and Clinton Streets, and equipped it with the largest, most 
modern and best adapted machinery attainable. The present location, covering 160x235 feet 
of ground, includes a large factory (130x130) two stories high, and engine and boiler rooms. 
The engine is of 125 horse-power; there is also a large re-saw, planers, and mould- 
ing machinery. Sixty - five hands are employed, and the annual trade exceeds. 



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$150,000. The specialty is the making of cracker boxes — this being the only factory so 
engaged in the city — and they can turn out 5,000 a day. Nearly half of this number is 
turned out daily for the Dozier-Weyl Cracker Factory, as well as a large number for the Dr. 
Harter Medicine Co. Henry Gaus, Jr., is a Director of the Union Mutual Ins. Co., and, 
like him, his partners are enterprising and jiublic-spirited. 

THE MOUND CITY DISTILLING COMPANY. 

J. j . I""isher, President; A. Bevis, Vice-President; C. Moller, Secretary : Distillery, Corner Barton and 

DeKalb Streets; Rectifying Ilouse, Corner Second and Trudeau Streets ; Office and 

Salesrooms, 220 North Main Street. 

This well-known corporation, with most ample resources and manufacturing facilities, 
is ever attentive to the wants of the trade, and in that behalf has recently, at great expense, 
secured the most improved machinery for the distillery of the company. The high wines, 
after being carefully distilled upon the latest improved beer-still, are sent through the Sin- 
claire rectifiers and then re-ilistilled in a new copper still having a capacity of 150 barrels, 
and combining all the approved principles of the French apparatus with the very latest Amer- 
ican improvements. As a result of this method and process, the company offers the trade a 
spirit absolutely pure, and in that respect at the head of American goods. 




The company lias also completed, in connection with the di^tilleiy, a rectifying house of 
large capacity, and is now prepared to supply the trade with rectified and re-distilled whis- 
kies, brandies and gins of any proof desired, and all grades of blended goods. Imported 
goods as well as domestic are kept, in gins, brandies and wines; but the company makes agin 
from imported juniper berries and malted grain that has become celebrated as equal to the 
imported. Kentucky Bourbons and Eastern Ryes, in bond and free, are kept in large supply. 

Yet the Mound City Distilling Company has added another new departure which is gen- 
erally ajiproved by the trade, and concerning which they announce that, "fully realizing that 
nothing so much improves whiskies as a long voyage at sea, we have determined to add U> 
our business a S]iecial blending dejiartment for the re-handling of fine Rye and Bourbon \\his- 
kies that have been exported. We have consequently made large purchases of some of the 
best products of Pennsylvania and Kentucky now stored in European warehouses, and have 
commenced to import these goods. The voyage of some 7,000 miles has given these whis- 
kies a maturity that is really wonderful, and by the careful blending of these fine goods we 
have produced whiskies which in point of purity and general excellence have no equal. No 
spirits or re-distilled whiskies are used in the blending of these goods, our object being to 
produce, in a natural way, a result never before obtained, and which has given us whiskies 
of the most absolute purity and finish." The patrons of the company embrace leading drug 
houses and licpior dealers, and the house is at all times ready to fill orders ranging from a 
car load to a five-gallon package, if required. The officers of the company are active, 
energetic and thoroughly experienced in every department of the business. 



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CORNELIUS BECANNON & CO. 

Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Artistic Gas Fixtures, Clocks, Bronzes, Metal and Porcelain Lamps, 

etc. ; 1013 Olive Street. 

As Western agent for the Mitchell-Vance & Co. (New York gas fixture manufacturers), 
the largest house of the kind in the world without exception, Becannon & Co., of 1013 
Olive Street, would have no inconsiderable patronage. As it is, they have a most excellent pat- 
ronage, extending well throughout the South and Southwest, for the general line named in the 
caption to this account. They carry by long odds the largest and most varied stock of fine 
gas fixtures and ornaments to be found in St. Louis. 

Although Mr. Becannon has been but five years in business for himself, his connection 
with this line of industry may fairly be said to be life long. He has been in it for twenty- 
seven years, having begun by serving the regular apprenticeship. Mr. Becannon's clever 
and accommodating methods are much esteemed by the trade. 

REDHEFFER & KOCH, 

Art Dealers; 1000 Olive Street. 

This repository of art treasures is a popular establishment in St. Louis among people of 
culture, and is recognized by artists and connoisseurs in art works as having done much to 
promote artistic taste and refinement throughout this section. 

The establishment was founded somewhat over three years ago by Andrew Redheffer 
and Arnold Koch, the former of whom had been in the same line in San Francisco as well as 
in Philadelphia, in which latter city he learned the business. Mr. Koch has also been a 
resident many years, and has been engaged in other leading mercantile pursuits. Both are 
enterprising business men and public spirited. They were among the promoters of the Ex- 
position and are stock and bondholders therein. 

The premises of this firm are extensive, and three stories are used in the business, the 
first floor as salesroom and office, and the second and third in the manufacture of mirrors, 
picture frames, etc. A gilding shop is also on the third floor. The house imports tube col- 
ors and artists' materials from Winsor & Newton, London, England; and tube colors from 
the celebrated house of Schmincke & Co., Dusseltlorf, Germany. The wares sold are 
acknowledged to be superior. Messrs. Redheffer & Koch are members of the Sketch Club 
and other organizations of artists. 

The particular specialty of this house is its manufacture of artistic frames. Themost skill- 
ful artisans of this vicinity are employed by them, and no expense is spared to excel all other 
houses engaged in this line. The merit of these products of the establishment has frequently 
been remarked, and a reputation has thus been acquired by this house. 

J. W. OVERSTREET & CO. 

Commission Salesmen and Forwarding Agents for all kinds of Live Stock; Consignments to both 
Union and National Stock Yards will receive prompt attention; Office, 1 and 2 Union 
■n Stock Yards. 

Before the Union Yards were opened in 1874, the senior member of this firm, Mr. J. 
W. Overstreet, was located at the North Missouri Stock Yards. Messrs. E. A. Pegram and 
J. McNeiley went into partnership with him soon after his removal, and this is the firm to- 
day. Mr. Overstreet's venture in this market dates from the year 1869. The principal 
receipts of this house are from Missouri, Arkansas, Iowa and Illinois, with some in addition, 
by boat, from Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi, from which part of the country the firm 

I of late years has had larger transactions than formerly. 

Mr. Overstreet attends principally and personally to the sale of hogs and sheep. Mr. 
Pegram gives his time and attention to the traffic in horned stock. Mr. NcNeily takes charge 
ot the office business. This system facilitates business, and is of advantage as much to the 

I firm's patrons as to themselves. Sales by this firm monthly sometimes reach the amount 

' of $400,000. 

Mr. Overstreet hails from Montgomery, where he was a feeder and shipper of live 
Stock for many years. Mr. McNeily was, before coming to St. Louis, a bank cashier in the 
same place, and was also interested in the stock business, buying and shipping on his own 
account. Mr. Pegram acquired his knowledge of the business by years of service in this 
market. As will be seen, all three are expert, each in his specialty. Stock consigned to this 
firm will receive prompt attention. Cash advances are made by it on consignments. It is 

', one of the soundest establishments enjracjed in the trade. 



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THE ST. LOUIS MALLEABLE IRON CO. 

H. M. Fillev, President; Oliver B. Filley, Vice-President; B. G. Farrar, Secretary; Manufacturers of 
Malleable Iron, Stove Plate, Clevises, AVagon and Carriage Malleables, Light Gray Iron Cast- 
ings, Blacksmith Forges and General Hardware; 210S to 2028 Market Street. 

It is now about fifteen years since these works were started, Mr. H. M. Filley being 
their founder. They furnish steady employment for some 200 men, whose wages average 
$2,cxx3 per week, and ship to all parts of the world. Filley's " Diamond F" Tuyere irons, 
and blacksmith's forges; and Perry's patent repair link are in use everywhere, orders being 
received from Australia, South Africa and Eurojie for them. The company also manufactures 
the regular line of malleables. Theirs is the only concern here that manufactures malleable 
stove plates and water fronts. 




The principals in this company are amongst the most prominent of St. Louis' citizens. 
H. M. and Oliver Filley are sons of one of the earliest mayors of the municipality. Secre- 
tary Farrar comes also from a family that settled here when the place was a mere trading- 
post. His grandfather was Mayor of St. Lonis so long ago as 1808. 

With such ties, it may not easily be contradicted that these gentlemen are attached to 
and identified with the industries of this city and State. But they have business interests, 
also, that give them title to that distinction. Mr. H. M. Filley was bred to the iron manu- 
facturing trade, his father having been in it before him. Oliver B. Filley is President of the 
Fulton Iron Works and the Missouri Furnace Company, and many other enterprises of that 
nature. Mr. Farrar served his commercial apprenticeship with the Simmons Hardware Co. 
and the A. F. Shapleigh Hardware Co. All three are thus conspicuous in the world of com- 
merce and manufacture. 

THE ST. LOUIS COAL TAR CO. 

J. Sibley White, President; G. H. Parsons, Secretary; Manufacturers of Roofing and Paving Materials, 
Sheathing, Felt, etc: Office and Factory, Corner of Levee and Convent Street. 

An inquiry as to what became of the immense amount of offal of the two gas companies 
in St. Louis, led to an acquaintance with the business of the St. Louis Coal Par Company, 
on the Levee and Convent Street, which consumes this vast product, being, in fact, the only 
company which manufactures its own product here. 

This establishment first obtained a footing here in 1866, under the name of Page, Smith, 
Lewis cS: Co. Two years later it was incorporated, and sul)sequently the Eastern capitalists 
in interest were succeeded by St. Louis parties. They furnish considerable of their product 
to the city; about half the remainder of their trade is in the State, and the balance through- 
out the ct)untry. They occupy, in various ways, about 60,000 square feet of ground, of which 
8,000 is covered by buildings. 

President J. Sibley White is a native of Maine, and was engaged in the roofing business 
in New York, Baltimore and Washington. Coming here in 1866, he engaged in the distilla- 
tion of the products of coal tar, which he has continued as executive of the company so sat- 
isfactorily. Secretary Parsons is also a jiractical and energetic business man. So the com- 
2')any prospers. 



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ROBT. ATKINSON & CO. 

General Order and Commission Merchants; Dealers in Flour, Mill Feed, Grain, Hay, Groceries, etc. ; 

and Commission Merchants in Wool, Hides, Furs, Feathers, etc. ; 

No. 8 South Main Street. 

The house described in the above paragraph is successor to the old-established concern of 
Chas. P.Williams & Co., and is engaged in the Southern order trade and general commission 
business. Messrs. Robt. Atkinson and Geo. Robinson are the present members of the firm, 
both of whom have had a mercantile experience and career not at all brief. Mr. Atkinson has 
been nearly twenty years in active and successful business life, fifteen of them as a leading 
merchant of St Charles, Mo. After selling out his business in St. Charles, he took a short 
respite from labor, and then bought the controlling interest in a grocers' sundries manufact- 
uring business in this city, building up for that establishment a large trade. He disposed of 
his interest therein, and then bought the business of Messrs. Chas. P. Williams & Co. As 
an evidence of his general commercial standing, it may here be remarked that he was also 
for a number of years a Director of the First National Bank at St. Charles, Mo. Mr. Rob- 
inson was for nearly ten years engaged in mercantile pursuits in Mississippi, before he came 
to take an interest in the firm of Chas. P. Williams & Co., which firm Messrs. Robt. Atkin- 
son & Co. succeed. 

The house at No. 8 South Main Street does an extensive business with the South and 
West, tilling large orders for grain, flour, provisions, groceries and all kinds of merchandise 
dealt in by the merchants to whom they sell. They make large shipments in car load and 
round lots, and their brands have the highest reputation throughout the section of country to 
which they ship. 

Messrs. Robt. Atkinson & Co. are doing business on modern principles, furnishing the 
best possible qualities of goods at the smallest possible margin to prompt paying customers. 
Possessed of ample capital and being close buyers, they are in a position to secure any bar- 
gains that are offered, and always give their customers the benefit of them. 

They also transact an extensive commission business, receiving and selling largely, 
wool, hides, and that class of country product, as well as flour and grain. They issue a 
regular price current and catalogue, keeping their trade well informed as to the changes and 
fluctuations in the market. The trade of the South and West will, if they have not already 
done so, do well to open up a correspondence with Messrs. Robt. Atkinson & Co. 

LOEWENSTEIN BROTHERS. 

Wholesale Jewelers; Diamonds, Watches, Novelties: New York office, 423 Broadway; St. Louis, 

618 Washington Avenue. 

The Loewenstein Brothers, Sol. and Raph., were in this same line in the East before 
they established themselves here in 1880. They still maintain a New York office, at 423 
Broadway in that city, as a purchasing agency. They manufacture some of the goods they 
sell (the gold goods), but sell rather more of outside make, particularly in the line of novel- 
ties and fine designs in jewelry, which are obtained by them from the first European and 
Eastern makers. The Loewensteins supply most largely the Western and Southwestern 
country. They are clever, accommodating and speedy tradesmen, with whom it is a satis- 
faction to have dealings. 

MISSISSIPPI, MISSOURI AND OHIO PACKET LINES. 

The St. Louis, Cairo, Paducah and Tennessee Company: the Eagle and Electric Lines; Jenkins and 

Sass Agents: 50S North Levee. 

The St. Louis, Cairo, Paducah and Tennessee Packet Company, for whom Jenkins & 
Sass of 50S North Levee are the agents, has been operating about three years. Two boats run 
on this route, the " Hudson," Capt. Frank J. Ellison, and the " W. F. Nisbet," Capt. John 
H. Griffith, both commanders river navigators of long experience. The Eagle Packet Com- 
pany nms daily to Alton and Grafton, a distance of fifty miles. The " Spread Eagle," Capt. 
Henry Leyhe, and the " Eagle," Capt. Wm. Leyhe, are the boats of this line. Wm. Leyhe 
is President; Henry Leyhe, Superintendent; G. W. Hill, Secretary; and Hunter Ben. Jen- 
kins General Freight Agent for this company. 

Messrs. Jenkins & Sass are also general agents for the new St. Louis and Kansas City 
Electric Packet Line, the only one running between St. Louis and Kansas City. Four boats 
run on this route, the " Dakota," Capt. Geo. G. Keith; the " C. C. Carroll," Capt. Charles 
K. Baker, the "D.R. Powell," Capt. R. J.Whitledge; the "General Meade," Archie Bryan, 



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Master; all of them first-class passenger craft, and in charge of accomplished and veteran 
commanders. This company began ojierations early in this year. Its officers are : S. B. 
Coulson, President; Hunter Ben. Jenkins, Superintendent and Manager. Commodore Coul- 
son is a resident of Yankton, Dakota. He is a steamboatman of many years standing. Mr. 
Jenkins has lived in this section for more than thirty years. He has always been identified 
with the river transportation business. Capt. Sass has seen forty years service at steamboat- 
itig. The line starts with most favorable prospects. 



GINOCCHIO BROS. & CO. 

Wholesale Dealers in Foreign, California and Tropical Fruits: 71 



and 71^ North Thiro Street. 




The building shown in this cut was built 
expressly for the house herein described, by 
David Ginocchio, one of the partners in it. 
The other principals in the house are Domenico 
Ginocchio and Louis Boggiano. Ginocchio 
Bros. & Co. undoubtedly transact the heaviest 
business in their line done in this vicinity. 
They handle immense quantities of bananas in 
the early part of the season, probably more 
than all the other concerns of St. Louis put 
together. In April they disposed of about 
twenty car loads. This branch of their trade 
is increasing rapidly, and is becoming almost a 
business of itself. 

In the fall a large feature of the business 
of the house is the California fruit trade. The 
house finds its best patronage in ■ Illinois, 
Missouri, Kansas, Tennessee, Iowa, and with 
local retailers and jobbers. Altogether the an- 
nual business cannot be much short of $500,- 
000. This is verified by the fact that it requires 
about twenty employes to projierly attend to it. 
This establishment has been in business in St. 
Louis for some twenty years, and has always 
maintained a high repute and prestige. 

CHAMBERS & STREETOR. 

Scenic and Show Painters: 314 Locust Street. 

They err who assume that much of the artistic painting that catches the popular eye in 
circus parades and upon the boards of theatres is done in the East. St. Louis is not only an 
art centre in respect to classic painting, but in that form of pictorial representation admired 
and api^reciated by common people. 

In 1870, Mr. J. T. Chambers, an artist with an already established reputation, inaugu- 
rated successfully in this city what may be termed an headquarters for show painting. He 
had no competitors in his line, and was successful in greatly extending the demand for pic- 
torial work illustrating the features and attractions presented in show life and other forms of 
popular display. In 1882, his son, F. M. Chambers, who had been under the tuition of his 
father and associated with him in furthering the enterprise, succeeded the founder of the 
house, and associated with him Mr. W. D. Streetor, who had formerly wielded the brush 
under Alex. Yule. 

These two compose the firm of Chambers & Streetor, and they have so extended the 
work that demantls upon their art come from all parts of the country. Besides painting 
scenery for local entertainments and exhibitions, exclusive of the scenic display in connec- 
tion with the famous Simmons Hardware Co.'s exhibit at the Exposition, they have done 
artistic work for Cole, Cooper & Jackson and John Robinson's circuses. Making a specialty 
of fittmg out traveling companies with scenery — the only house west of New York so en- 
gaged — the firm has a practical monopoly of all work in this line "West and South. It has 
been whispered that, though at all times busy in the direction named, Mr. Chambers has also 
found time, in cases of emergency, to apjily his art to the removal, or painting over, of con- 
tusions upon the eye or other prominent features of patrons, whom the untoward accident of 
"a stick of woud flying up" had befallen, or whose coimtenance had been marred by some 
eccentricity of a lamp post at night. The firm merits its prosperity. 



THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 1 25 

JAMES EDWARDS & CO. 

Bonds and Stocks: 219 Olive Street. 

Mr. James Edwards is a native of Cincinnati, although he has been twenty-five years 
resident of this city. He began his business career here early in the sixties as an employe 
of the Merchants Union Express Company. In 1868 he ventured into stock transactions, 
and at once took rank as a broker of judgment and rare perspicuity. He is an active man in 
the money and stock market. Mr. Edwards has confined himself largely of late to the hand- 
ling of municipal bonds, making a specialty of the city and county securities of Western and 
Southern States, particularly of Texas and Missouri. At present he has no partner. 

ST. LOUIS AMMONIA AND CHEMICAL CO. 

Manufacturers of Finest Quality of Ammonia for Cliemical and Druagists' Use, and for Refrigerating 

Macliines. ; W. A. Newman, Secretary aod Treasurer: Office, S. E. Cor. Main and Convent 

Streets, St. Louis, Mo. ; ^Vorks, Main and Convent Streets, St. Louis, Mo., and 

Main and Keck Streets, Cincinnati, Ohio. 

The incorporation of this company, and the establishment of these works here (also 
works just as large in Cincinnati, Ohio), is an additional industry for St. Louis, and is one 
suggested by the increased demand of late for refrigerating products. The St. Louis Am- 
monia Company makes its ammonia from the residual of gas works only. Mr. W. A. New- 
man, who is the Secretary and Treasurer of the company, and is also part owner of the 
works, has his headquarters in St. Louis. The works have been constructed so as to have ' 
most complete facilities for manufacture, and are ready and able to compete with any con- 
cern in the country. 

The methods employed by this company insure a chemically pure product, and one 
designed especially for the use of chemists, druggists and others for whose purposes purity is 
an essential. The company is ready to contract for the best grade of ammonia, of highest 
strength, for refrigerating purposes. 

UDELL & CRUNDEN. 

Manufacturers and Jobbers of Wooden and Willow Ware, Children's Carriages, Boys' Wagons, 
Velocipedes, Udell's Ladders: Sixth and Locust Streets. 

This firm under its present name dates back but two years, but the associate partners 
were for eight years connected with the house of Udell, Schmeiding & Co., that carried on a 
very extensive wooden ware business at the location now occupied by the Samuel Cupples 
Wooden Ware Co. So Messrs. M. R. Udell and Frank P. Crunden, composing the present 
firm, have very extensive acquaintance with the wooden ware business. Moreover, they 
represent, throughout the South and West, the Udell Manufacturing Company, where the 
wooden ware so extensively sold and the universally approved Udell's ladders are made. 

In their capacious building, at the corner of Sixth and Locust streets, Udell & Crunden 
keep in stock, and job throughout the West and South, the celebrated children's carriages 
and rattan ware manufactured by Heywood Bros. & Co., at Gardner, Mass., while the stock 
of velocipedes, bicycles aud tricycles is full and complete. With their facilities for pushing 
business, and extended knowledge of the trade in all its branches, together with their direct 
connection with the Eastern factories named, whose wares meet the popular acceptance the 
world over, Udell & Crunden possess great trade advantages, and their business success 
during the last two years has been extraordinarily large, as well as fully merited. 

THE EXCELSIOR DISTILLING CO. 

J. L, Bernecker, President; H. Dahman, Vice-President; L. F. Engel, Secretary; Re-distillcrs, Rec- 
tifiers for the trade and Wholesale Liquor Dealers; 615 North Second .Street. 

This house was founded in 1864 by J. L. Bernecker, and became, by incorj^oration, the 
successor to that gentleman's firm in 1S76. The company has a capital stock of $50,000, 
which sum gives a fair idea of what its business is. 

The Excelsior Company does an exclusively city jobbing business, and sells almost 
altogether for cash, asking for itself no credit whatever. Twenty-one years honorable and 
liberal transactions have grounded it well in the confidence and esteem of the trade here- 
abouts. 



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F. O. SAWYER & CO. 

Manufacturers of and Dealers in Paper; Depot for the Globe Envelope Co. ; Printers' Material, 
Binders' Stock, Twine, Bags, etc. : 301 and 303 Nonh Second Street, Corner of Olive. 

As the oldest paper house in St. Louis, and as an important factor in all matters affect- 
ing the market in that line, this house has superior claims to recognition in a work of this 
character. The year 1859 is the date of its foundation. Mr. F. O. Sawyer directed its first 
operations. In 1863 the firm became Johnson & Sawyer, but in 1875 the designation at the 
head of this narrative was adopted, ami has since been retained. Tlie 15 employes of this 
house are found to be just about suflicient for an annual business rising $600,000, and 
located mostly in the Northwestern, Western, Northeastern and Southern States. A specialty 
is made of printers' and wrapping paper, also of fancy printing material. This house is 
sole agent for the Globe Envelope Co., and for the Patent Fibre paper. Shipments invaria- 
bly as directed. Samples by mail. Since this establishment carries as large a stock as any 
house in St. Louis on hand always, and has the patronage of all the principal printers of 
these parts, and as most of the best business houses are supplied with wrapping paper, etc., 
by it, it can readily be seen that it has particular and special advantages to give its customers. 
Much of its transactions are in car load lots. 

THE TUDOR IRON WORKS. 

m 
St. Louis Bolt and Iron Co., Proprietors; T. A. Mysenburjj, President; Geo. S. Edgell, Treasurer; 
Win. E, Guy, Secretary: Works, East St. L )uis : Office, 509 Njrtli Third Street. 

The St. Louis Bolt and Iron Company having acquired the business and works of the 
Tudor Iron Company, the consolidated establishment has since been known as the Tudor Iron 
Works. The Tudor Company had been manufacturing on this side of the river, and re- 
moval was made in 1881 of the entire concern to East St. Louis. The Tudor Iron Works are 
the largest works of the kind west of Pittsburgh. They do for the most part railroad work, 
such as fish bars, track bolts, spikes, mine rail, street rail, bridge bolts, etc. The works lo- 
cated in East St. Louis cover about ten acres of ground. They furnish employment for about 
450 hands. They supply all the country to the west of the Alleghanies with light rail, both of 
iron and steel, for tramways, street railroads, and mines. A mill especially planned for this 
kind of work enables the company to make the best article at the lowest cost. 

The spikes made by the Tudor Iron Works are the favorite wherever they have been 
used. With a mill making nothing but spikes, the company are prepared to rank with the 
largest manufacturers of their class. 

At this time a nut and washer factory is being added to the works, which will increase the 
daily output some ten tons. When in full operation, these works turn out from 140 to 150 
tons of finished material daily. A picture of them is shown on the opposite page. 

BACON & WEST. 

General Commission Merchants; Special attention given to the Sale and Purchase of Cottou, Tobacco, 
Pork, Wool, Wheat, Corn, Oats, Seeds, Hides, Furs, etc. ; 114 Pine Street. 

This is a recent establishment, its doors having been opened for the first time in Feb- 
ruary last, but the gentlemen of the firm are pretty well known and have most excellent 
prospects as well as strong resources. Mr. W. J. Bacon has long been one of the largest of 
the Kentucky stock raisers. Mr. H. C. West was in the commission line for many years in 
Memphis, and for the past ten years has had opportunity to make a wide rural acquaintance 
as a cotton buyer. 

Messrs. Bacon & West are prepared to do business on a broad scale. They make most 
liberal advances on consignments. All orders are promptly, efficiently and painstakingly 
attended to. They have capable employes and ample storage room. The success of these 
gentlemen in other pursuits, and in the same line at other times — Mr. Bacon, it may here be 
remarked in parenthesis, was formerly one of the firm of Bacon, Clardy & Co., New York 
City — is surety that they will fulfill all their engagements to the very letter. 

In this connection it may very properly be added thai the house of Bacon, Clardy & Co., 
of New York, was considered one of the best and strongest commission houses there. Its 
sales often ran up into the millions. The fact that Mr. Bacon had almost the sole direction 
of its affairs (his partner being an invalid), is a sufficient indication of his qualifications and 
experience, as also of his resources. 



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THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 




MOSER, BULL & CO. 

Manufacturers of Cig^ar and Paper Boxes ; 20S to 214 Elm Street. 
The founder of this concern was the father of the senior member of the present part- 
nership in it, Mr. Otto Moser. J. D. Moser died about twelve years ago, and his son then 
conducted the factory until last year, when Mr. F. D. Bull, who for a number of years be- 
fore had been the Secretary of the 
Graham Paper Co., was admitted 
to an interest. Establislied in 
1853, and in constant operation 
since, this factory has a patron- 
age in accordance with its length 
of service. With its facilities, 
there is no sort of doubt but that 
it can turn out more boxes than 
any similar factory in the West. 
There are 120 hands employed. 
Wages to the amount of $1,000 
\\ eekly are paid. Imniensequan- 
tities of paper and paper stock 
are consumed by it. In straw 
boards alone there is consumed 
about thirty-five car loads a year, 
and of paper of all descriptions 
from two to three thousand reams 
in the same time. Large quan- 
tities of Spanish cedar and other imported woods are also required. The best trade of this 
house comes to it from the city, .Southern Illinois, the South and West of this point. Every 
convenience that could be suggested by experience and necessity has been put into this 
establishment, so that it is certainly the most complete in the country. The buildings, 
erected about twelve years ago, are represented in the accompanying illustration. 

THE BILLINGSLEY & NANSON COMMISSION CO. 

R. L. Billingsle}', President; Joseph S. Nanson, Vice-President; Geo. II. Hall, Treasurer; W. B. 
Anderson, Secretary; Grain and Options: Room 20J Chamber of Commerce Building. 

Beginning in 1851, as Nanson, Dameron & Co., this house has been prominent in the 
grain trade from that date until now. It was incorporated in January, 1884, the more satis- 
factorily to solicit consignments and to buy grain in the West and North for shipment to the 
East and South. An option business is also done by it on commission. 

Capt. Nanson, of this house, is a veteran of the river service, from which vocation he 
retired many years ago. He is now a director of the St. Louis Elevator Company. Mr. 
Billingsley has lived here for twenty years or more. He was in the wholesale grocery busi- 
ness until about five years ago, having at that time entered this house as a principal. Mr. 
Hall was Mr. Billingsley's book-keeper in the grocery business. He has been with this 
house aliout six years. Mr. Anderson came from Commerce, Mo., about six years ago, and 
has been interested ni this house ever since. He is President of the Grand Chain Milling 
Co., of Commerce. 

This house is a heavy dealer in the chief staples of this market. Commission services 
performed by it may be relied upon to be accurate and entirely satisfactory. 

THE PIONEER STEAM KEG WORKS. 

Wm. Brown & Co., Proprietors: Keg Factory, 2212 DeKalb Street, St. Louis ; Stave Factory and 
Store, Brownwood, Stoddard County, Mo. 

Mr. Brown, the senior member of the firm who own the Pioneer Keg Works, was the 
first to engage in that line hereabouts. The struggling enterprise which he inaugurated in 
1854 would bear no sort of comparison with that which is now regarded as the largest con- 
cern of the kind in the neighborhood of St. Louis, and yet it is the same establishment, un- 
mistakably shownig by its progress the general expansion of the manufacturing industries of 
St. Louis and the West. 

As may V)e imagined, the 175 employes of the two factories, aided by the latest improve- 
ments in the way of machinery, turn out a heap of finished kegs. The staves and headings 
being furnished by the firm's stave factory at Brownwood, the St. Louis factory is equal to an 



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output of 7,000 kegs a clay. The Samuel Cupples Wooden Ware Co., the Collier White 
Lead and Oil Co., St. Louis Lead and Oil Co., and some other large concerns take this whole 
product. The wholesalers and retail trade are supplied through the Cupples house. The 
reputation and credit of this factory for superior workmanship having been established only 
by long years of thorough manufacture, the demand for the Pioneer kegs is continuous, and 
the fact that shipments go to points so far distant as the Pacific Coast shows how this 
factory is rated. 

Messrs. Firman Jessup, Daniel S. Brown and Prentice J. Batchelor are Mr. Wm. Brown's 
partners. The elder Brown is one of the Directors of the Covenant Mutual Life Insurance 
Company, of St. Louis. 

THE ROHAN BROS. BOILER MANUFACTURING CO. 

Michael Rohan, President; Philip Rohan, Secretary; Manufacturers of all kinds of Steam Boilers and 
Sheet Iron Work ; iioo to 1 120 Collins Street. 

The three Rohan brothers, John, Michael and Philip, having been resident here in St. 
Louis since 1848, are so thoroughly known throughout this section as to need no further 
identification than that they are the Collins Street manufacturers. Their establishment was 




distinguished for the extent of its transactions long before they came into control of it (as 
the Park, Gaty, McCune Works), but it is since 1873, when they obtained possession, that it 
has attained its greatest and, as will be seen by the following account of it, actually world- 
wide repute. 

An account of their concerns published not long since says: "The annual product of 
this factory now exceeds $250,000, and is rajndly expanding. As showing the character of 
it, one example may be noted. In 1S77 the Rohan Company made and shipped, to fill one 
order, fourteen car loads of boilers and machinery, the complete equipment for six steam- 
boats, constructed by the Russian government to traverse the rivers of Siberia. That one 
order amounted to $37,000. The establishment of railway facilities in Old Mexico has 
opened up in that country a vast field for American manufactures which this company is not 
neglecting. During the past year also, they have sent a large number of orders to New 
Orleans, and they are sup])lying a fine plantation trade from Louisiana and ^Mississippi "' 

The Messrs. Rohan incorporated in 1S81, with a capital stock of $50,000. They give 
employment to from 130 to 200 skilled hands, whose wages are $1,500 a week, and who 
handle, in the various processes of manufacture, 1,000 tons of iron a year. Their work is 
almost altogether done by contract. The manufacture of boilers is a specialty with them, 
but, at the same time, they make to order all sorts of wrought iron \\ork for steam and heat- 
ing purposes. The plant of their works is remarkably complete. Their workmanship is un- 
surpassed. They supply mills, inland and ocean steamers, and all kinds of mechanical ap- 
paratus with boilers; and in addition thereto, they have at No. iioo Collins Street a depart- 
ment for repairing, and they keep on hand and for sale second hand boilers, etc., that have 
been first jnit in thorough repair. In short, this is a concern that would be rated as A i in 
any manufacturing center. 



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THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 




V. SCALZO, SON & CO. 

Importers and Wholesale Dealers in Foreign, Californi.i and Tropical Fruit; Branch Houses in New 
Orleans and Kansas City :. 900 North Third Street, St. Louis. 

The building shown in this cut, one of the 
handsomest in the wholesale quarter of St. 
Louis, was erected in 1883 by the house of 
Scalzo, Son & Co., especially for the fruit trade, 
the entire building being fitted up for summer 
and winter use, so as to carry fruit in all sea- 
sons. This house is said to lead all others 
here in this industry. They have branch houses 
in New Orleans and Kansas City. They have a 
large city trade, and also a first-rate patronage 
in Iowa, Nebraska, Texas, Illinois, and through- 
out all the West and South; particularly in for- 
eign fruits and produce. 

The principals in this house are F. Scalzo 
and S. Rocca Fiorita, of St. Louis; V. Scalzo, 
of New Orleans; and P. V. Rocco, of Kansas 
City. Messrs. Scalzo, Son & Co. receive large 
importations at New Orleans of foreign fruits, 
which are there consigned to them. Orders to 
purchase at auction or private sale received by 
this house will be promptly attended to, custo- 
mers thus being enabled to buy from first hands. 
The growth of the business is continuous, and 
within the last few years it has attained recog- 
_^^ nition as one of the most important trade in- 

— -••o-.v,-./ terests in the Mississippi Valley. Messrs. 

^^S^i^!",-''^ Scalzo, Son & Co. have very extensive business 
relations with tropical countries, and such 
speedy transportation arrangements as insure their stock of fruits always being fresh. 

C. M. KEYS & CO. 

Livestock, Commission and Forwarding Merchants: 31 Stock Exchange Building, K.ansas City; 
8 and 10 Exchange Building, National Stock Yards, East St. Louis. 

Mr. C M. Keys of this firm came here about fourteen years ago from Pittsburg, and 
established the house of C. M. Keys & Co. He had been in the same line in the Pennsyl- 
vania Central Stock Yards at Pittsburg. D. W. Keys, a brother, joined him here about ten 
years ago, coming from Chicago, where he had been a hog-buyer for Eastern parties. Hugh 
Mills, the third resident partner, came from Clay City, Ills., where he had been buying and 
shipping live stock, and where he still has farming investments. 

About three years ago this firm established a branch at Kansas City. Messrs. Isaac 
Keys and A. M. Ewing are in charge there. The business has progressed wonderfully since. 
This firm does a business that may be safely estimated at $350,000 to $400,000 a month. 

THE FRANKLIN MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY 
OF ST. LOUIS. 

Henry Meier, President; H. J. Spaunhorst, Vice-President; Louis Dueslrow, Secretary:' Office, 7^0 
North Fourth Street, Southeast Corner of Morgan. 

Incorporated so long ago as 1855, this company has, by thirty years of successful oper- 
ation, proven that it is stanch, safe, and uncommonly well conducted. It has for its Directors 
such responsible and experienced gentlemen as John C. H. D. Block, John C. Nulsen, Aug. 
Cornet, L. J. Holthaus, John H. Kaiser, Henry Meier, Marquard Forster, H. J.*Spaun- 
horst, and Chas. Taussig, who have shown their capacity for underwriting affairs by long 
years of service therein. 

The average annual expense of this company, for the past twenty-five years, has been 
but $7,000. Of course economical administration is as much to the advantage of the insured 
as of the insurers. No assessment has been made for six years, and the cash reserve on 



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131 



hand is $30,000. From the statement of this company's last year's business (1SS4), pub- 
lished by the State Insurance Department, March 2d, of this year, it appears that the balance 
of premium notes unpaid was $313,530.05; total available assets, $343,460.61 ; total liabil- 
ities, $203,132.64; surplus, $140,327.97. 

The total cash income for 1884 from all sources, excluding premium notes, was $19,- 
050.45; the losses paid in the same period were, $15,573.49; the whole amount of expendi- 
tures during 1884 was less than $29,000, although the company had risks of over $5,000,000. 

As going to show the stability of this thorough-going company, it may here be mentioned 
that upon its reorganization in March of 1884, fifty years extension of its charter was obtained 
for it. All losses are equitably adjusted ])y this company and promptly paid. 

McCABE & YOUNG. 

Manufacturers of Spring Wagons : 1 120 to 1128 North Main Street. 
This concern manufactures about 1,000 wagons and buggies yearly, employing for that 
purpose from fifty to seventy-five men when running full handed. They have been doing a 
good business with the Western and Southern country for some fourteen years, their average 

sales probably 
realizing $150,- 
000 for them 
yearly. Formerly 
they were locat- 
ed at 1446 Broad- 
way, but they 
have been occu- 
pying more con- 
venient and satis- 
factory premises, 
at the numbers 
mentioned above, 
for two years 
past. This firm 
has acquired 
prestige more by 
the quality of its 




work than by the amount of business done by it. 



METCALF, MOORE & CO. 

Live Stock Commission Merchants ; 14 National Stock Yards, East St. Louis, 111 ; Branch at 

Kansas City Stock Yards. 

James Metcalf and Wm. F. Moore founded this business in 1872, taking in E. J. Sen- 
seney two years later, and Messrs. R. B. Tarlton and N. T. Jackman in 1880. The firm is, 
in point of capital and resources, one of the soundest and most substantial doing business 
here. Last year its total transactions amounted to something over $4,000,000. The sales 
were : cattle, 29,000 head; hogs, 183,000; sheep, 15,000. 

Mr. Metcalf looks after the firm's cattle department, Mr. Tarlton the hog traffic, Mr. 
Senseney the office and finances here, whilst Messrs Jackman and Moore manage the Kansas 
City branch. This house does a commission business exclusively, and does not speculate at 
all. It is considered one of the most satisfactory here to have dealings with. 

G. LEHMAN & CO. 

Ancla Cigar Factory — Manufacturers of Fine Cigars : Factory at 220 North Second Street ; Retail 
Department, Broadway and Olive Street. 

The demand throughout the South, West, and Southwest for fine cigars has steadily in- 
creased for many years, and led to the manufacturing of fine Spanish goods in large quanti- 
ties. Among those most prominent in catering to this constantly growing demand, is the firm 
of G. Lehman & Co., proprietors of the Ancla Cigar Factory, occupying the three-story build- 
ing at 220 North Second Street, and employing from twenty to twenty-five hands constantly, 
as also maintaining a handsome and well appointed retail store at the Southeast Corner of 
Broadway and Olive Street. 

The factory is solely devoted to the manufacture of fine Spanish goods, and has been so 
engaged some twelve years, always occupying a position of prominence in the trade. The 



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THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 



firm imports its own Havana tobacco and Sumatra wrappers, using no domestic product what- 
ever. The bramls of the house are well-known and po]Hilar among dealers and consumers 
throughout the West, Southwest and South, in which sections the trade of the firm is very 
extensive, and its city and retail trade also exhibits phenomenal growth, which is largely due 
to the genuineness, purity and general excellence of the cigars manufactured by CI. Leh- 
man & Co. 



THE SHULTZ BELTING CO. 

J.A.J. Shultz, President; 'Wm. P. Mullen, Vice-President; 15. C. Alvord, SucreUir\ : iJireclors, 
Husrh McKittrick, Win. P. Mullen, S. C. Bunn, Geo. X. lieard, J. A. J. Shultz : Manufac- 
turers of the ShuUz Patent Fulled Leather Belting, Lace and Picker Leather, etc. : 
Offices and Factory, Cor. Bismarck and Barton Streets. 

The history of this company is a record of the triumph of mechanical ingenuity, pluck 
and business enterprise. It is a St. Louis company, in the sense that it is located and the 
interest was developed here, although Chicago liid high to secure the enterprise and works 

for that city; but it 
is National and 
even world-wide, 
in Its jiractical ex- 
emplilicat i on of 
m\entive genius 
and mechanical 
accomplishment as 
applied to the 
manufacture of 
Soft, pliable and 
cl istic belting from 
stitf leather, which 
I'r. done by it in a 
\eiy few \v e e ks. 
This corporation is 
made up of the 
strongest material 
The stock- 
holders are all 
business men of 
prominence and 
capital. It has a 

capital of $^00,000, of whah ^220,000 is pud up, and it is ceitainlv one of the most thriv- 
ing v.f the many ^pev.ial invlustucs of St. Luuib. \\ ithm the fuctoiy aie all of the most mod- 
ern ecpiipments for the working of leather. The buildings contain appliances and machinery 
for the making of Fulled Leather Belting, Lace and Picker Leather, and the entire area 
under cover is 307x309 feet — eqaal to 67,400 feet of surface. 

Much of the machinery is President Shultz's own invention. Over 100 hands are em- 
ployed, the exigencies of the business often requiring them to be worked night and day; and 
yet so great has been the demand for belting, lace leather, etc., made by this company, that 
the works have frequently been behind orders and utterly unable, for the time being, to get a 
yard of belting in stock. The Shultz Company now works 20,000 hides for belling and 6,000 
for lacing yearly. Sincethe inauguration of the enterprise there has been a continuous in- 
crease in the sales. Orders now come, not only from all parts of the United States, but 
from Canada, Europe and other foreign places. Agencies are maintained in France, Bel- 
gium and Holland, as well as in all the principal American cities. As has been already 
remarked, the jiersonality and trade prominence of the othcers of this company is one of its 
prime characteristics. President J. A. J. Shultz has been spoke of at length as an expe- 
rienced tanner, as well as the inventor of "the best of the machinery used by his company. Wm. 
P. Mullen, the Vice-President, is a Director of the Provident Savings Institution; B.C. Al- 
vord, Secretary, was formerly book-keeper for the firm of Noland, Jones & Co.; Hugh Mc- 
Kittrick and vS. C. Bunn are menihers of the well-known firm of Crow, Ilargadine & Co., 
and the former is also a Director of the St. Louis National Bank. Director Geo. M. Beard is 
one of the safe manufacturing firm of Geo. M. Beard & Bro. Judge Chauncey F. Schultz, 
who represented the company in the National Hide and Leather Dealers Association's Con- 
vention, was the Chairman of the Committee on Permanent Organization of that thoroughly 
representative body. This was as much a recognition of the Shultz Company as of the 
gentleman himself. 




THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 1 33 




THE DEANE STEAM PUMP COMPANY. 

Holyolvu, Mass ; Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago ; St. Louis Office ami Salesrooms, 6u; 

North Main Street. 

The Deane Steam Pump Company were, until about three years ago, represented here 
by the well-known house of M. M. Buck & Co. At that time (1882), a branch house was 
established here, the better to accommodate the Western and Southwestern demand for the 

Deane Pump, which is large and con- 
stantly increasing. The manufacture is 
still carried on at Holyoke, but with the 
superior arrangements and facilities 
now maintained at 619 North Main 
Street, orders can be filled from St. 
Louis with all necessary dispatch for 
pumps for any service. 

The Deane Pumps are celebrated 
as having been awarded the gold medal 
of the Massachusetts Charitable Me- 
chanics Association, in 1881, for ex- 
cellence of workmanship and superior 
mechanical construction ; among the 
judges of awartl being L. J. Knowles 
of the Knowles Steam Pump Works, 
and Geo. ¥. Blake of the Blake & 
Knowles Pump Co., rival manufacturers, which simple fact speaks volumes in praise of this 
pump. The Deane Steam Pump Company have since taken the highest awards at Charlies- 
ton, New York, Louisville, Calcutta and Madrid. This company is acknowledged to excel 
in steam pumping machinery of every description, giving, as it does, particular satisfaction 
with its mining pumps,, artesian well engines, bilge pumps, boiler feed pumps, brewery 
pumps, condensing apparatus, deep well pumps, double plunger pumps, duplex pumps, fire 
pumps, hydraulic pressure pumps, marine pumps, oil refinery pumps, plunger pumps, quarry 
pumps, sinking pumps, tannery pumps, tank pumps, vacuum pumps, vertical engines, and 
water works pumping engines as a specialty. 

The management of this company's business, at St. Louis, is now in the efificient hands 
of Mr. Geo. W. Dudley, who has recently come to St. Louis from the Holyoke factory. He 
being a practical machinist and engineer, all parties contemplating the purchase of steam 
pumps will do well to consult Mr. Dudley and place their orders with him. 

R. S. McCORMICK & CO. 

Grain Exporters and Commission Dealers ; Rooms, 3 to 6. Northwest Corner Third and Pine Streets. 

McCormick, Adams & Armstead was the firm name when this house was first established 
here ten years ago. R. S. McCormick, of Chicago, President of the " Advance " elevator, 
and W. L. Greene, jr., are the principals in the house at present. 

This is one of the foremost grain houses here. It is one of the few exporting houses 
that buy whatever grain is for sale on their own account as well as on commission, and ship 
to Eastern and Southern seaports. It has an office at St. Joe and one at Kansas City. 

The present firm has been operating in this market for about five years, Mr. Greene com- 
ing to St. Louis at that time from Peoria, 111., where he was in the same line. Mr. 
McCormick has been sufficiently prominent in the trade to have been chosen, last year, as a 
Director of the Exchange. 

THE STONE HILL ^A^INE CO. 

\Vm. Herzog and Geo. Starck, Sviccessors to M. Poeschcl, Scherer & Co., AVinc Crowers and Dealers 
in Missouri "Wines ; Proprietors of the Stor.c Hill Vineyards ; Geo. II . Eischer, Manager : 

210 Market Street. 

This, the oldest exclusively native wine house in St. Louis, is a branch of the Stone 
Hill Company's establishment at Hermann, Mo., at which point are located the vineyards and 
wine-cellars of that concern. Connoisseurs claim that the Stone Hill Company's vintages 
are superior to any other Missouri wines. Certainly they have the largest sale, and are in 
greatest demand. These wines have taken the Paris (World's Fair) Premium, 1878; 
Vienna, 1872; and the Philadelphia (Centennial), 1876. The Concord, Iris Seedling, Vir- 



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THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 



ginia Seedling and Claret marketed by this company are the purest of red wines. The 
Catawba, Riesling, Goethe, Martha, Delaware and Taylor are white wines of distinct flavor 
and most palatable qualities. Of these different sorts about 150,000 gallons are manufac- 
tured yearly. The Stone Hill Company has remarkably complete facilities for vine growing 
and wine making at the Hermann vineyards. The shipping cellar has a capacity for 100,000 
gallons of the company's products. The storage cellars will hold 165,000 gallons; the fer- 
mentation cellars 75,000. 

The Stone Hill Company had a fine exhibit at the New Orleans World's Exposition. 
Competent judges awarded it the preference over even the much-vaunted California wines. 
Mr. Geo. H. Fischer has been the manager of the St. Louis House since 18S3. 

M. ROSENFELD. 

Manufacturer of Trunks, Valises and Traveling Bags : Factory, 1 1:5 Franklin Avenue ; Salesroom, 

1002 Olive Street. 

After twenty - five years" 
manufacturing, at first in a small 
way, but now on an extended 
scale, Mr. M. Rosenfeld, of 1002 
Olive and 1405 Franklin Ave., 
can now claim the distinction of 
being the largest trunk manu- 
facturer in St. Louis. He began 
on Franklin Avenue, and has 
run the Olive Street house for 
about eight years, supplying 
from both places a patronage 
that comes to him from Missouri, 
Illinois, Arkansas, Kansas, and 
the Southwest generally. He 
occupies the whole of 1002 
Olive, the extent ot the premises 
giving an idea of the breadth of 
Mr. Rosenfeld's transactions. 
His first floor there he uses as a 
salesroom, the second and third 
for manufacturing purposes. 
Special sizes and kinds of trav- 
elera' outfits are made here to 
order. 

Aside from his business, 
Mr. Rosenfeld is a progressive citizen. He has contributed to the success of the Exposi- 
tion by taking stock therein, and is generally allowed to be a thorough tradesman. 

E. C. KRUSE & CO. 

Commission Merchants tor the Sale of Hides, AVooI, Pelts, Tallow, Furs, etc.: 31S Xorth Commercial 

Street. 

Evans & Huntley founded this house in 1S73. Ten years later, upon their retirement, 
Messrs. E. C. Kruse & Co. became their successors. The later proprietors have conducted 
the house skillfully and with success, retaining all the prestige that it had acquired under the 
old management. Mr. E-. C. Kruse, senior member of the firm, is considered by the trade an 
expert in all matters relating to wool, and having served ten years in a most important posi- 
tion with Evans i^ Huntley before venturing for himself, is undoubtedly not over-rated in 
this particular. Having direct connection with the great buyers of the East, a thorough 
knowledge of the market, and ample capital, consignors will readily perceive how much more 
advantageously such a house can treat with them, than one with less resources. 

Having roomy and commodious quarters at No. 318 Commercial Street, in which to re- 
ceive, sort and store the large receipts daily arriving, no consignments are too large for 
the house to handle. Commission services confided to this house are invariably promptly and 
accurately attended to. Returns made on the day of sale. The large acquaintance of this firm 
with actual consumers of hides, wool, pelts, feathers, beeswax, tallow, rags and bones, 
makes it an especially excellent consignee for products of that nature. 

Messrs. Kruse & Co. issue a weekly price list, which will be furnished upon application 
therefor. 




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135 



JOHN L. BOLAND. 



%VTiolesale Bookseller, Stationer ami Paper Dealer, aiul Blank Book Manufacturer: 010 and 61 

Washington Avenue. 



This house's recor 
of that date are now 
tinned that length of 
time in the future 
The original firm \va>. 
Amos 11. Schultz .S. 
Co.; after them came 
Cantwell & Shorb 
(some fifteen years 
ago), with whom the 
present proprietor wab 
interested, although 
his name \\as not con- 
spicuous in the man- 
agement. IniS73the 
house was Shorb «N. 
Boland. About a year 
ago Mr. Shorb • re- 
tired, and Mr. Boland 
now directs affairs a- 
lone. 

The house has a 
trade sufficient for the 
employment of thirty- 
five to forty people, 
ten of whom are trav- 
elers for it. The pat- 
ronage coriies to it 
mostly fromthe North, 
the West and the 
South - west. The 



d extends back for half a century — to the year 1S35. Few houses 
in existence, and it is safe to say that few of this day will lie con- 
stock carried includes 
all the latest litera- 
ture as it is publish- 
ed, and the finer lines 
of holiday goods and 
novelties. For the 
trade, school books 
and stationery are 
made a specialty. The 
house has all the char- 
acteristics of age, re- 
sponsibility, repute 
and ample resources. 
Its business con- 
nections with publish- 
ers are so extensive, 
that a new book 
scarcely leaves the 
press before it is found 
on the shelves of the 
store, and the highest 
grade of new litera- 
ture is made a spe- 
cialty of. Some idea 
of the facilities of the 
house is presented in 
the accompanying il- 
lustration. 








CHAS. NIEDRINGHAUS. 

AVholesale and Retail Stoves, Ranges, etc. : looi Franklin Avenue. 

The year 1858 is the date of the establishment of this house, the original firm being 
Niedringhaus Bros. The house has always been located in the neighborhood where it now 
is. In 1867 the brothers dissolved, each taking a branch of the business, Charles the stove 
trade, and H. L. the furniture business. 

Mr. Niedringhaus has been a resident of St. Louis for twenty-seven years. He has an 
excellent city trade and a first rate patronage in Missouri and Illinois for his stoves, ranges, 
refrigerators, gas and gasoline stoves and house furnishing goods. He is agent for the 
Michigan Stove Company and the Adams & Westlake gas and gasoline stoves. 

S. BIENENSTOK & CO. 

Dealers in Broom Corn, Broom Material, Furs, Hides, Peltries, Feathers and AVool : Office, 222 and 
224 Xorth Main Street; Warerooms, 223 and 225 Xorth Commercial Street. 

The following extracts from an article published by the Post-Dispatch^ of this city, last 
year, illustrate the strength, solidity and characteristics of the house which is the subject of 
this sketch: 

" Few people about St. Louis know that there is a Wool Exchange here which meets 
daily at No. 10 Commercial Alley, and still fewer know that St. Louis is the largest receiving 
wool market in the country. About 20,000,000 pounds are received annually, and the Bien- 
enstoks are the largest buyers in the city, handling nearly $3,000,000 worth of the staple a 
year." 

The house of Bienenstok & Co. dates its establishment from the year 1S60. The present 
partnership was entered into in 1878. The old house will be recollected as located on 
Broadway, next to the Randall House, and afterwards at Second and Walnut Streets. The 



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THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 



new firm first opened at 113 Main Street, afterward moving, to accommodate its increasing 
traffic, to the present location. The buildings occupied at the numbers given above are six 
stories high, i20xSo feet in area, contain several hide, fur and wool presses notable for size, 
and in them are employed 25 men, whose salaries aggregate $2,500 per month. 

The trade of the house is mostly located in the Southern and Western States, and is 
principally in wool, which is its specialty. Liberal cash advances are made by it on con- 
signments, and the concern is very generally regarded as a fair-dealing and straight-forward 
house, such as it is a pleasure to have dealings with. 

THE ST. LOUIS WIRE MILL CO. 

Win. Kdenborn, Piesijent and Treasurer; Chas. F Ilintze, Vice-President and Secretary: Twenty-first 
Street, from Gratiot to Papin Street. 

The "St. Louis Wire Mill Co." (owned by F. M. Ludlow) was the original designa- 
tion of this establishment. Mr. Wm. Edenborn, now President of the concern, was em- 
ployed liy LudUnv until he bought him out. Mr. Edenborn has been a resident here since 




1867. He is a practical wire drawer, and is experienced in every detail of the business. It 
was he who drew the first wire made in St. Louis. Besides his interest in these works, he 
is Vice-President of the Southern Wire Co., and is President of the Steven's Fence Co. 

From 1869 to iSSo these works were at Main Street and Clin-ton Avenue. As the trade 
expanded and greater facilities became necessary, the necessity of larger premises was ap- 
parent. Accordingly in the latter year removal was made to the premises at Twenty-first 
and Papin Streets. Ilere there are employed about 160 hands, most of them in the manu- 
facture of plain and barbed wire and staples. These goods find ready sale all over the 
■West, North and South, by reason of their quality, durability and cheapness. 

THE HULL & COZZENS MANUFACTURING CO. 

Sole Agents and Manufacturers of Haves' Patent Skylight, Spears' Philadelpliia Fireplace Heater, 
Richardson it Bovnton Healing Furnace; Copper, Tin and Galvanized Iron Work; 
1:25 Olive Street. 

Established in 1S41, this concern's repute in the mechanical world is based upon actual 
performances. Mr. Hull, of the original firm, died about a year before the incorporation of 
the stock company, nevertheless his name was retained as a part of the business designation 
adopted in 1875. The officers of the company at present are, W. F. Cozzens, Presi- 
dent; L. D. Roberts, Secretary. Mr. Cozzens was at one time a City Councilman, at 
present he is one of the building committee of the Mullanphy estate. 

The Hayes metallic skylight, for which this company is Western agent, is the well-known 
New York invention, which has been the favorite everywhere from the time of its introduc- 
tion. The Cozzens Company has its best patronage in the city and the surrounding country. 

SAM'L. A. GAYLORD & CO. 

Dealers in Investment Securities: 307 Olive Street. 

Messrs. Gaylord & Co. (Sam'I. A. Gaylord and John H. Blessing) have made a great 
success in the negotiation of municipal bonds of Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska, which 
securities they handle in greater amounts than any firm here. Mr. Gaylord, senior in the 
firm, has been a resident of St. Louis since 1849. He came originally from New York, and 
was for many years engaged in banking operations, until in 1861, when he established 
this house, in company with his father and brother. About twenty-three years ago they 
withdrew, and for a tin^e the firm was Gaylord, Leavenworth & Co. Since 1866 it has been 
as appears at the head of this account. Mr. Blessing, from 1869 to 1880, was in Mr. Gay- 
lord's services; in the latter year he acquireil his interest. The firm executes orders in 
New York, Philadelphia and Boston. All orders will be promptly and satisfactorily at- 
tended to. 



THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 



^37 



GANAHL, SCHALLERT & CO. 



LtMilier and Sli(>e Fiiuli 




•J i860. 



SOLEXHARNESSLEATHER 
n CALFS KIP SKINS I 

MOROCCO 

J SHEEP SKINS 

I ALLIGATORS 

FITTED UPPERS 

SHOEFINDINGS 

SH0EST0RE5UPPLIES 





'^''■m^ ST .LQUIS.MQ.-. 

the ]iros]iei"ity of the house is the reward of 



s : 7 1-' North Fourth Street. 

This house took its rise in the venture of 
Christian Ganahl and A. Jochum in the year 
Upon the death of Mr. Jochum, Mr. 
F. J. Ganahl acquired his interest. Until 
about the year 1872 the firm was Ganahl & 
Bro., but from that time on it has been known 
by the designation at the head of this para- 
graph. At the beginning of this year, Mr. 
F. J. Ganahl assumed the entire control and 
manageUient, and so has conducted the house 
to date. 

This concern has a standing throughout 
the West and Southwest befitting a house with 
a quarter of a century's record. Its annual 
business approaches a quarter of a million in 
amount closely. The fact that it makes no 
specialties of its stock shows the breadth and 
variety of its ojierations. It has all the char- 
acteristics of an establishment of wealth, in- 
fluence and repute. Tlie business methods of 
this house, like its goo<ls, give entire satis- 
faction. 

Within the last few years St. Louis has 
attained more general recognition as a desir- 
able market for the leather trade, and its trib- 
utary territory, in receipt of raw material and 
sliipment of manufactured product, is con- 
stantly increasing. Among those who have 
largely promoted this interest, is the enter- 
prising firm of Ganahl, Schallert & Co., and 
such well-directed energy and enterprise. 



JESSE ARNOT. 

Livery, Sale anj Board Stable ; 90S, 910 and 91.! Chestnut Street; 907, 909 and 911 Market Street. 
Don Hewitt, Manager — Branch Office at Lindell Hotel 

There are few citizens of St. Louis and its environs who do not know Jesse Arnot, who, 
away back in 1S37, drove the first four-horse stage that ever entered Glasgow, Mo., and, 
many years after, in person drove the hearse (which he still owns) that conveyed the remains 
of the martyred and immortal Abraham Lincoln to their resting-place in the city whence the 
savior of his cnuntiy had a few years before departed to assume the trying duties of the 
Chief Magistracy of the Nation harassed by internecine strife. Nearly fifty years ago he came 
to St. Louis, but here joined the historical Howard party on its trip up the country, and did 
not return until 1849. In the latter year he and his brother (A. Arnot), with a capital of 
$2,000 only, bought the livery stable of Robert McO'Blennis on Chestnut Street, adjoining 
tlie old Re /'uh lie a It office, and thus inaugurated an enterprise now occupying premises ex- 
tending from Market to Chestnut streets, emjiloying from 250 to 300 horses, a small armv of 
men, and almost every variety of vehicle, from a single seat buggy to the grandest barouche — ■ 
the largest stable in the West. The change of location, prior to the occupancy of the present 
<paci<jus quarters, was from the site now occupied by the Chamber of Commerce building; 
tor where the bulls and bears now rage rampant, Mr. Arnot's horses for twenty-one 
years neighed and enjoyed their oats. It was about the time of the removal that Mr, A. 
Arnot retired, leaving the chief founder to continue the business with his old foreman, 
Wm. Henezey, who still remains with him, having served in that capacity from the first, 
and always with great faithfulness and efficiencv. ?sse Arnot has always exhibited 

much puldic spirit and enterprise. He was one of the founders of the Fair Ground Asso- 
ciation, and is still a stockholder; he purchased one of the first lots sold in Bellefontaine 
(^emetery; was one of the founders of the Bank of Commerce, in which he is yet a stock- 
holder, which relation he also holds towards the Exposition, and has been a promoter of 
every enterprise tending to advance the interests of St. Louis. Mr. Arnot is jstill energetic 
and is highly cfteemca. Mr. Don Hewitt manages the stables, and Mr. Arnot himself 
much fretpieiits his branch otlice at the Lindell Hotel. 



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THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 




THE BENTON ^A^IRE WORKS CO. 

F. W. K. Hl-nI, (iciieral Manayjer; F. M. Kkibcr, Secretarv ; Miiiiufactiircr.s of Barbed Wire Fencing; 
320 to 326 South Twenty -first Street. 

The Benton Barbed Wire Company emjiloys forty men, and has the best part of its 
patrona;^e in the West and Northwest. The works have a capacity for manufacturing 40,000 
pounds of barljed wire a day. 

Mr. Best, the Pres- 
ident of this comjiany, 
has been a resident 
here some twelve years. 
He was in furnace 
buildinj^ in the South- 
ern country and in En- 
jjland jirior to his ar- 
rival. Before this com- 
pany's establishment 
(1883) he superintend- 
ed the furnaces for the 
Harrison Wire Co. 

Secretary Kleiber 
has been in St. Louis 
now going on twelve 
years. He was a clerk 
with the Harrison Com- 
jiany, anil luul also had an extended experience in the business, l.iis company is in thriving 
condition as regards resources anil uatronage, and is rapidly takin^j ]ios!tion with the heaviest 
of tlie local wire manufacturers. 

^A/'HITE SEWING MACHINE CO. 

No. 14 Nortli Fourth Street. 

Since its establishment in 1876 the progress of this company has been nothing short of 
extraordinary. It has, in addition to extending its trade over the entire United States, estab- 
lished agencies for the sale of the ]]'/iifc machine tliroughout Eiirojie and in many other for- 
eign countries. 

The St. Louis branch, under the management of Mr. W. T. O'Mara, has entire control 
of the business in the States of Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Texas, New Mexico, Nebraska, 
Indian Territory and the southern portion of Illinois, and there are ai)out five hundred sub- 
agencies in the territory above mentioned, which necessarily brmgs this city a large trade in 
the Jf 7/ /Vf machines. The well-won reputation of the White has made it a popular favorite 
with dealers everywhere, who find it the most rajiidly selling machine now in the market. 
The business of the St. Louis branch of the White Company is rapidly expanding, and it is 
now recognized as one of the most promising enterprises in the city. For the carrying on of 
its retail business in St. Louis this company has a small army of employes, and keeps in use 
constantly fifteen wagons. The new "Automatic White"' machine lately placed ujion the 
market by the company has already liecome a popular favorite. It is a beautifully finished, 
light-running anil duralile single-thread machine, and wherever it has been exhibited or 
tested has been accorded the palm of superiority. Reasoning from its past record, the 
White Sewing Machine Comjiany can look to a nmst promi-^ing future in the business hi'itiirv 
<if St. Louis. 

J. B. LEGG. 

Arcliilect; Southeast Corner of Fiftli and Olive Streets. 

The name o( the a'-chitect is unfortunatelv too seldom associaleil with the structure that 
he ])lans, and due credit has been denied many a meritorious and superior work on that 
very account. It is with gratification therefore that the subject of this brief sketch is referred 
to as the architect of the St. Louis Exposition and Music Hall buildings, one of the finest 
specimens of architecture in the country. Architect Legg has been pursuing liis chosen call- 
ing here for about sixteen years. Nearly two-thirds of his work being outside of the city, 
and ilistributed over twelve or thirteen States, he had not, up to the erection of the Expo- 
sition buildincTr acfuiired the reoutation that men of smaller caliber ("and greater pretense) 



THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 139 

claimed for themselves. But he cai: show many fine examples of modern architecture both 
in the city and surrounding States, notably the Manual Training School of the Washington 
University, D. Crawford & Co.'s building, the Hotel Rozier, the Centenary Church, " Fam- 
ous" building, the Natatorium, residence of R. M. Scruggs, and others. Elsewhere he 
is known as the designer and superintendent of the Illinois State Institution for the Blind, 
at Jacksonville; of the Eighth Street Church at Little Rock, Ark.; of the Opera House at 
Neosho, Mo.; the Opera House in Fort Smith, Ark.; the Ashy Block at Helena, Montana; 
the Comstock & Avery building at Peoria; the Dlrich Block at Decatur, and many others. 

Mr. Legg makes the contracts for owners with builders, etc., for the different parts of 
the work, and supervises the construction of buildings. He is now putting up the Palace 
Rink building at Wichita, Kansas, and the new Methodist College at Muskogee, Indian 
Territory. 

THE BROCKNER-EVANS BALE TIE CO. 

W. Brockner, President ; Henry A. Stine, Secretary and Treasurer; Manutacturers of P.itent Sttel 

Wire Bale Ties, Galvanized Wire Netting, Sheep Fencing, Poultry Houses, etc. ; 

819 to 823 North Second Street. 

Established five years since and incorporated about three years ago, this house has 
flourished because it has had most excellent management, and because it has a superior 
article to offer its trade. In its specialty, wire bale ties, it now has a patronage coming from 

all the States, and an annual business rising 

$50,000 per year. 
^^1^ The Brockner-Evans wire tie is mostly 

used for the baling of hay, also for broom corn 
and other such purposes. Sales are largely made direct to the farmers who have presses and 
bale their own hay. The cut on this page illustrates the style of the bale tie made by this, 
company. The Brockner-Evans Company has a paid up capital of $10,000. 

D. CRAWFORD & CO. 

General Dry Goods Merchants: Broadway and Franklin Avenue. 

The Crawford establishment, now known not only in St. Louis, but pretty well over the- 
West, South and Southwest, was, in 1866, an exceedingly modest enterprise. The first 
store • occupied by Crawford & Co. was but 13x20 feet in area. Gradually as the patronage 
has been developed by constant and persistent application these premises have been expanded 
until now, on the same spot, or rather at the same situation, the house occupies about 60,- 
000 square feet of floor surface, which is in as marked contrast with the original ap]iearance 
of the place as the annual sales would be if compared with those of to-day. This year it is 
expected that the transactions will exceed $2,000,000, which amount does not seem excessive 
when the fact is taken into consideration that the house has 400 employes, and at Christmas 
and other busy seasons sometimes 500. 

Of course the bulk of the trade of this house is local, but the order or shipping depart- 
ment is not the least important branch of this industry. The house handles, besides dry 
goods, boots and shoes, house furnishings, upholstery, tailoring materials, millinery, books, 
etc., etc., in fact all sorts of household necessities. As an instance of the methods by 
which business is accelerated here, it may be mentioned that last winter Crawford & Co, 
bought out the complete stock of Leubries Bros, upon the occasion of the Sheriff's sale, pay- 
ing in cash the sum of $108,555 to the Sheriff, thus displaying an ability to handle great en- 
terprises and the ample resources at command of the principals. 

The " Co." of this firm is Mr. A. Russell; Mr. Crawford is of Scotch birth, and was atr 
one time President of the St. Andrews Society of this city. 

HOLT, PAYNE & CO. 

Live Stock on Commission; Union Stock Yards. 

The business of this firm has been established some eighteen years, although the partner- 
ship as now existing dates back but eight years. The card of this firm gives a brief but 
pointed statement of the methods pursued by them; methods which have been approved by a 
patronage coming largely from Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kansas and Iowa. 
It reads : 

"J- C. Payne, Cattle Salesman, Hugh M. Watson, Hog Salesman, John J. Holt, Office. 
Consignments to us at National Stock Yards will be promptly attended to. We engage in 
no speculations, but devote our whole time, capital and energies to the interests of our cus- 



I40 THE INDUSTRIES OE' ST. LOUIS. 

tomers Our salesmen are piincipals — men of experience — niul v tally interested in giving 
satisfaction. We hold no stock unless compelled to do so, but make it a rule to sell on first 
feed and water, if possible (and for the best, as it generally is) . Drafts on consignments 
honored to the extent of tuo- thirds value of stock. Bill of lading showing consignments 
must, in all cases, accompany draft. Give us a trial. Our interests are united with yours, 
and we depend entirely upon the patronage we can secure, by deserv.ng it." 

In the packing season this firm sells from ten to twenty thousand dollars' worth of hogs 
a day. In the summer season they handle mostly cattle. The annual transactions reach a 
million or a million and a half ; probably nearer the latter figure than tl e former. More hogs 
are sold of course than cattle, but the one sort of sale about counter-balances the other in 
value. The monthly average of cattle sales by this firm is 1, 800; of l.ogs 8,000. The gross 
sales in December last were $101,05000. These figures illustrate better than any mere 
assertions the standing and responsibility uf the firm. 

McCALL & HAASE. 

Manufacturers of Fine C.irri:iges, Coupes, Biigyies, Surreys, etc.: Cnrner iSth and Pine Street. 

This establishment, founded in 1871 by McCall, Lancaster & Haase, was two years 
later necessarily changed to the present style, Mr. Lancaster having died. So the firm is 
now com[)Osed of Louis M. McCall and Chas. H. Haase, both first-class mechanics and 
with years of experience in carriage making. Their specialty is tine carriages, which are so 
much admired in the city of their manufacture, that although this is now the largest factory 
devoted to such Hne work, the demand fully keeps up with the supply and the trade continues 
largely local. The firm took first premiums at State Fairs so long as awards were made to 
•carriages at aii. 

Starting on Tenth and Washington Avenue, and five years thereafter located on St. 
•Charles Street, the firm requiring more room, and greater facilities for manufacture with the 
increase of trade, removed to their present commodious quarters the present year, and 
occupy a magnificent four-story building, 95x109 feet, employing constantly from fifty to 
sixty skilled hands. The basement is used for storage; the first floor as blacksmith shop, 
office and salesroom; the second is occupied by the wood department and ware-room: the 
third and fourth floors as paint shops and trimming departments. Painting and repairing 
are ..lade a specialty. The members of the firm are enter-prising and puidic-spirited. They 
were among the promoters of the Exposition and are stockholders therein. 

HUNTER BROS. 

Shipping' and Commission, C rain ami Fcetl Hou.«;e : 407 Chamber of Commerce Building'. 

This is a house that does no option business, and does not solicit consignments. Mr. W. 
W. Hunter runs the Chicago ofiice of the Arm, Mr. John A. Hunter the St. Louis establish- 
ment. Travelers of the house buy throughout the country, and the principals purchase also 
on 'Change here and in Chicago, for shijiment to the principal Southern and Eastern cities, 
where the house has its brokers. 

The house was established here in 1872, by Mr. W. W. Hunter. He lived here from 
1867 to 1879, going in the latter year to open the Chicago honse. John A. Hunter is a resi- 
dent of St. Louis since 1873. Both brothers are members of the Merchants Exchange here, 
and W. W. belongs to the Chicago Board of Trade. The Chicago house is located in the 
Insurance Building, Rooms 41 1 and 412, No. 218 La Salle Street. Hunter Bros, stand 
high in the estimation of all who have ever had dealings with them. 

HENRY & CO. 

Manufacturers of all Grades of Excelsior: Norlhcast Corner of Carr and Main Streets. 

P. Henry, F. Tieman and F. Uetrecht have been in business as the firm of Henry & Co. 
for about eleven years. They began with but moderate prospects, but have since develope i 
a most satisfactory trade for the product of their factory in the Northwest and West, South- 
west and South. The machinery and ]iresses in use by them for making and packing the 
excelsior is of their own invention and patent. They are continually improving the same and 
thus lessening the cost of producing the commodity they make. They have thirty men em- 
ployed, and do a business of perhaps $30,000. The works turn out about three tons of e> - 
celsior daily when they are run to their full capacity. Henry & Co have been f:iir!y sm - 
cessful. and they deserve it because they have brought to bear on their affairs, pluck, 
persistence and speed. 



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WESTERN RAILROAD LAMP AND LANTERN 
MANUFACTORY. 

F. Meyrose & Co., Proprietors _; Manufacturers i>f Tuhuliir, Railroad, Lake or Iviver, ami Oil ;iiul Candle 
Lantf^rns, Electric Lumps, etc. : 733 and 735 South Fourth Street. 

This large manufactory was established ]>y Mr. F. 
Meyrose in i8t)S, ami although in the beginning it was a 
comparatively small enterjjrise, under his energetic man- 
agement it has so grown from year to year that it is now 
acknowledged to be the largest of the'kind w est of New 
York, employing eighty hands, selling goods through job- 
bers all over the continent, and already exceeding ^150,000 
in the annual volimie of its trade. 

The product of these extensive works, four stories 
high, fifty feet facing on South Fourth and eighty on Gra- 
tiot street, aggregates an average of from twelve to fifteen 
thousand dozen tubular lanterns and electric lamjis a year, 
all of these being patents, due to the inventive genius and 
mechanical ingenuity of ]\Ir. Meyrose. The wares, which 
are of admitted superiority, are everywhere in request. 
The tubular lanterns and electric lamps are a specialty of 
the house, but Mr. Meyrose also makes, in large numbers, 
study lamps and other wares in that line. Flis partner died 
about two years since, but the house is continued under 
the firm name by the enterjjrising founder, and bids fair 
shortly to become the largest of the kind in America. Of 
late years, and by reason of the fact that most ein'nent 
oculists have declared gas-light most injurious to the eyes, 
the popularity of study lamps has greatly increased. Those 
manufactured by Mr. Meyrose are esjiecially preferred bv 
readers and persons accustomed to literary labors, and his 
electric lamps have found entrance to many huusc'iolds 
formerly using gas. 




THE ST. LOUIS SASH WEIGHT CO. 

Manufacturers of .Solid Eve Slsh 'Weights and Special Castings of all Kinds: 153, 155 ai 

Street. 



Miller 



This brisk establishment is an outgrowth of the Baltimore .Smelling Works, ^^hose Pres- 
ident, James Delaplaine, is also President of the Sash Weight Company. But little l)usiness 
except in weights is done by this concern, the manufacturing being directly for the trade. 
The company, whose managing officers besides Mr. Delaplaine are, Herman Iless, Vice- 
President, and A. Linck, Secretary and Treasurer, has been in operation but three years, 
nevertheless it has already accjuired a first-rate and highly encouraging ])atronage throughout 
the North, South and Southwest. 

A fire destroyed these works soon after their foundation, Init such was the trade that 
they were at once rebuilt. They are now under the management of \'ice-President Hess. 
The tv\ enty workmen turn out about six tons of finished work a dav. Contractors and 
builders pronounce the work done by this sash weight shop of the highest quality. Since 
their establishment, weights have been furnished to many of the most prominent building 
jobs done here, among them the Drummond and Fxj)osition buildings. Prosperity has at- 
tended this venture from the start. 

THE GRIER COMMISSION CO. 

D. P. (Irier, President, J. B. .M. Kehlor, Vice-President; Geo. W. Ui)diUe, Secretary: Grain 
Commission Merchants: lloonis 405 and 40(1 Chamber of Commerce liuilding. 

This house was incorporated in December of last year. Its juincipal dealings are in 
grain, buying here on 'Change, and through its branch houses at Kansas City and at 
Atchison and Hiaw-atha, Kansas, to fill orders for exporters in New York and Philadelphia, 
and also in New Orleans and Newport News, Md, At the i^rcsent writing, the house is 

moving 140,000 bushels to I'hiladeljihia. General Crier w a n nt one lime Vice-President of 



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the Merchants Exchange. He has resided here fur about five years, having been in the 
same line in Peoria, Illinois. Vice-President Kehlor of this company is the well-known 
mill man. He is also interested in (he East St. Louis Elevator. Mr. Updike, Secretary for • 
this company, has lived in St. Louis for about twenty years. The house receives most largely • 
from the agricultural regions of Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska and Miss(juri. An option business 
is also done by it. 

A. S. ALOE £: CO. 

M.iiu.lactiirers an>'. Importers of Mathematical, Optical, Electrical and Sur<<ical Instrtaiients : 
300 Xorth Fourth Street, Cor. Olive. 

The visitor to the capital of the great Mississippi Valley rarely fails to view its leading 
thoroughfare. Fourth Street, and if following the usual custom in this regard, the house of 
A. S. Aloe & Co. is not apt to escape observation, whether attention is at first attracted by 

-1 the massiveness of the building, or some espe- 
cially noteworthy feature in the always attractive 
display windows. If the visitor enters the sales- 
rooms or store, he will be struck with the mag- 
nitude of the establishment, and the almost 
countless number of mathematical, optical, elec- 
trical and surgical instruments on view, and will 
[iromptly accede to the fact, universally admitted 
in the trade, that this is the largest establishment 
of the kind in the United States. If he already 
has knowledge of the house, it is to the effect 
that Aloe & Co. make standard goods only, and 
fully keep pace with the rapid advance of this 
most progressive business in the history of trade 
development. Should the caller be interested in 
any special department, he will find courteous 
ind competent salesmen, conversant with every 
detail pertainingto the subject. 

The history of this firm is one continuous 
career of progress from small beginnings to a 
point far beyond competition or rivalry. The 
house was founded in 1855, by S. Aloe & Son, 
it later bore the name of A S. Aloe & Co. ; then 
Vloe, Hernstein & Co.; and now returns to the 
honored name by which it is best known at 
home and abroad — A. S. Aloe & Co. Besides , 
the store building, 25x120 feet, on the corner of j 
Fourth and Olive Streets, of which the firm oc- 
cupies the first floor and basement, there is a 
factory at 207 North Third Street, where the 
instiuments— othei than the imported— aie made with the greatest exactness and hi the ; 
hicxhest style known to the art. Here are employed 35 most skilled workmen— for in the 1 
making of the standard instruments of this house it requires the highest and most proficient 1 
class of skilled labor at every step, as well as the most improved machinery and tools. Under ; 
Mr. Aloe's personal supervision at the store are employed 20 assistants, so that the pay-roll of 
all the employes of the firm annually exceeds $50,000. So excelling in manufacture, the 
firm also exceeds all in the territorial and jiccuniary extent of its sales, the lornier embracing 
all this country and Mexico, and the aggregate trade exceeding $300,000 a year. So com- 
plete a stock of mathematical, optical, electrical and surgical instruments— $1,000,000 worth 
and ujnvards being constantly carried by the house— is seen at no other establishment in the 
United States. . . .... • , i r 

Mr. A. S. Aloe, the head of this oldest house of the kind in the city, is distinguished tor 
public spirit in liberally contributing his time and money to any enterprise calculated to 
advance tlie general interests of the citv. His display at the last St. Louis Exposition was the 
finest in his line ever seen in America, but he promises an even better exhibit for the Exposi- 
sition this year. At the St. Louis Fair he has exhibited for fifteen years, and always has 
taken first ])remiums over all competition . He is prominently connected with the Merchant-; 
and Manufacturers Trades Display Association, which gives an annual parade of the indus- 
tries of St. Louis, and to the grand illuminations of our gala week he is also a liberal 
contributor. Hence the large success of his firm is a source of satisfaction among all pubhc- 
spirited citizens of St. Louis. 




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GEORGE I. BARNETT & SON. 

Architects and Superintendentb : Room>^ ,;iS aiul .57 Insurance Exchange Building, Southeast Corner of 

Fifth and Olive Streets. 

If the accomplishment ot great enterprises is to be taken as the test of uncommon ability 
in any vocation, then the subjects of this sketch have a claim to recognition in a vi^ork of this 
character that may not lightly be gainsaid. This is especially true of the senior member of 
the firm. Certainly the Southern Hotel building, that which was burned, and the one that 
replaced it, the Lindell, the Mutual Life Company's solid structure, the Granite building 
Corner of Fourth and Market, the Barr Dry Goods block, the Old Post Office, and the resi- 
dences of Gerard B. Allen, and Mrs. Maffit, and J. E. Kaime, may be pointed to with pride, 
not alone by their owners and constructors, but by any citizen of this community as evidences 
of the progress and advancement of the great city of St. Louis. 

All these structures are the work of Geo. I. Barnett, and to say that they are fairly to be 
compared with any similar architecture in this country is to put it but feebly. 

The elder Barnett has been thirty years practicing his profession here, sometimes as a 
business associate with others, as when he was one of the firm of Barnett, Scholl & Isaacs, 
and again by himself. Geo. D. Barnett shares with him the responsibilities of the business, 
which is chiefly confined to the city, although there has but recently been constructed from 
their plans a fine hotel in the South, besides other work out of town. For this outside busi- 
ness a superintendent is regularly employed, thus relieving the principals so that they can 
give entire attention to the home affairs. The office work alone of this firm requires from 
three to ten draftsmen. Having had great experience therein, this firm is particularly trust- 
worthy in all building projects of moment and importance. The greater the sum to be ex- 
oended. the more mav be saved or squandered in the application of it. 

E. S. BROOKS. 

Dealer in Hides: 90 North Main Street. 
The house at 920 North Main Street was known until about May of last year as the eS' 
tablishment of Lapham, Brooks & Co. It had been founded in 1872, and has alv\ays had a 
most flourishing trade. The Laphams were non-resident partners, one residing in New 
York and another in Chicago, from which fact may be gathered some idea of what the Eastern 
connections of the house were and are. The ]5urchases of the house have mostly been made 
in the South and the Territories. The annual business has averaged $300,000. The em- 
ployes number twenty-five. The foregoing account shows just about what is the standing of 
this house. It is one of the foremost in its line, both with respect to capital and resources, 
as well as in those particulars of management that make a house popular with its patrons. 

JOHN R. CALHOUN & CO. 

Manufacturers and Jobbers of Agricultural Implements, Farm Wagons, Mill Machinery, etc.: 

1024 and ioj6 North Main Street. 

The firm name in the above headlines has been conspicuous only since 1882, although 
the principal in it has been doing business here for more than twenty years. He has been 
known in that time as a member of the commission house of L. J. Bush & Co., as one of the 
house of Semple, Birge &Co., and as one of Semple-Birge Manufacturing Company, which 
concern he succeeds. The trade of this house with Missouri, Illinois, the West and South- 
west generally, is not overrated when it is put at $500,000 per year. Six traveling men are 
now on the road for it. John R. Calhoun & Co. are agents for several of the great manufact- 
urers of the United States, among them: Washburn & Moen Manufacturing Co. 's Hay Baling 
Ties; E. Bement & Son's celebrated Chilled Plows, etc.; Pekin Plow Co.'s Steel Plows, 
Sulkies and Cultivators; Sandwich Enterprise Co.'s Cultivators, Feed Mills, Wind Mills and 
Force Pumps; Emerson, Talcott & Co.'s "Standard" Mowers and Corn Planters; Bickford 
& Huffman's Farmers' Favorite Grain Drills; P. K. Dederick & Co.'s Hay and Cotton 
Presses; Fort & Wayland's Champion Hay Ricker, Loader and Gatherer; Hussey Manufac- 
turing Co.'s Improved Smith Mower, 7 Ft. Cut; Samlwfch Manufacturing Co.'s Corn Shellers 
and Horse Powers; Bradford Mill Co.'s celebrated Mill Machinery, etc.; T. and H. Smith 
& Co.'s "Standard" Smith Wagons; Marshall, Graves & Co.'s "Victor," "Star" and 
"Dayton" Sulky Rakes; E. W. Walker & Co.'s Pumps, Hand Carts and Wheelbarrows; 
C. S. Bell & Co.'s Standard Sorghum Machinery; Wm. T. Wood & Co.'s genuine Boston 
Ice Tools. 

These and all other standard agricultural apparatus furnished at prices to suit the times 
and as low as anywhere in the United States. 



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THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 



THE MILBURN MANUFACTURING CO. 

Jiinies Milbiirn, Presideut; James (.>. Enibrtc, Secretary; MamifailunTS of Carriages, 15usgie> 
Spring- Wauons : EicUiry, Cnriur Seventh Street anil Cass Avenue. 




Originally established iii Terra Hatite, Tnd., this manufacturing enterinise was trans- 
■erred to St. Louis about twelve years since by James Milburn, the founder, who succeeded 
X) the Presidency when the industry was incorporated, some years since, with a }iaid up cap- 
lal stock of $100,000. 

Always a large establishment, it has greatly increased in manufacturing facilities and in 
Js extent of trade during the last five or six years; and since its location at Seventh street 



THE INDUSTRIES OE ST. LOUIS. , 1 45 

and Cass avenue, where the premises are large (70x120 feet) and comprehend every modem 
contrivance to facilitate and promote manufacture. The shops inchuie five stories and base- 
ment, and the lumber yards cover 50x127 feet. About 125 men are ordinarily employed at 
the works, and five traveling men are kept on the road, visiting the various points of trade 
already established and opening new avenues of business. The territorial extent of the 
trade maybe described as all west of the Mississippi, and the house has patrons from Oregon 
to Mexico. Manufacturing a general line of carriages, buggies and spring w agons, the 
company also makes a specialty of work adapted to the use of stockmen in Texas and the 
Territories, as well as for heavy livery work, the vehicles being made large, roomy and 
durable. President Milluirn is an experienced manufacturer and energetic business man, 
and Secretary Embree [lartakes of the same qualifications. Hence the large success of the 
company and the popularity of its wares. 

ROBERT McK. JONES & CO. 

Dry Goods Commission Exclusively : 618 Lncust Street. 

It is now nearly twenty years since this establishment was located here as a branch of the 
house of Josephs. Geary & Son, of Baltimore. J. M. Randall & Co. succeeded to the business- 
of the branch in 1866. (Mr. Randall is the father-in-law of the late Commodore Garrison.) 
Following Randall & Co., 1877, came Noland, Jones & Co., who, in 1882, were followed by 
the present principal, Mr. Jones. 

Such in brief is the history of the house. The present firm is still agent for James S. 
Geary & Son's products in this market, and sell large quantities of those popular goods. The 
patronage of the house is largely local, and with the dealers in the larger cities of this sec- 
tion. Goods are handled only in the original packages, consignments being received direct 
from the manufacturers, and sales being made only t(j the wholesalers and the manufacturers 
who use dry goods. The specialties of this establishment are jeans, heavy ducks, brown 
sheeting, grain bags, carpet chain and yarns. Advances are made at a low rate of interest 
on bills of lading, and all possible accommodation given patrons. 

The mills from which this house receives consignments are situated in Indiana, Kentucky, 
Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama. The heavy ducks handled by it come 
from the Mt. Vernon Company of Baltimore, Maryland, the largest manufacturers of heavv 
cotton ducks in the world. The Mt. Vernon mills use in the process of manufacture some 
Seventy-five bales of cotton daily. 

FLEISCHMANN & CO. 

Original Manufacturers and Introducers into the United States of Compressed Yeast; George W. 
McGlanghlin, Agent; 17 and 19 South Eleventh Street. 

Fleischmann & Co.'s Cincinnati Compressed Yeast Company is the largest of the kind m 
the United States. They were the first to introduce this indispensable household preparation 
into this country, bringing the recipe therefor from Europe, and they have profited greatly by 
their enterprise. They have branches of their Cincinnati establishment in all the principal 
cities, with headquarters in New York City and Cincinnati. The St. Louis house is a branch 
only, but it does an extracndinary business, not alone in this vicinity, but with the Western 
and Southern sections, sufficient to justify the employment of twenty men, and nine city de- 
livery wagons. Manager McGlaughlin has been a resident of St. Louis for ten years, and 
has been representative of the firm here for about seven years. He is a clever and accom- 
modating agent, and is well esteemed by the trade. 

N. GOLDSMITH & CO. 

Hides, Wool, Furs and General Commission : H3 North Commercial Street. 
Mr. N. Goldsmith is regarded as a most active and accomplished business man by alt 
who have had dealings with his house, and these, owing to the miscellaneous character of 
the produce in which he has trajisactions, are legion. The house has no particular specialty, 
all sorts of country produce contributing to an annual business rising $100,000. The pat- 
ronage of the establishment likewise is not confined to one locality, but purchases are made 
in and shipments directed to all quarters of the West and the adjacent South. A strong 
capital and exceptional resources enable the spirited proprietor of this house to do business 
at widely different points, and to accommodate his customers as few others in the same line 
of trade can. The premises occupied by the house are in the heart of the business center of 
St. Louis, and are conveniently located for ail the purposes of a first-chss commiisiott 
trade. 




St. Louis Architectire. 

Plans by Pfabody and Sffarxs. 



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THE ST. LOUIS NEWS CO. 

307 North Fourth Street. 

This widely known house is the chief distributing point for about all the reading matter 
that is perused in the West and Southwest. It has regular customers in all the towns of 
those sections, who are supplied daily with the periodicals and magazines as they arrive. 
Having 1,126 customers in the country necessitates the charging of that number of accounts 
each day, and considering the fact that almost the same number of persons take St. Louis 
dailies, the consequent shipping of over 2,000 packages. 

The supplying of the St. Louis dailies is a feature of the St. Louis News Company's 
trade. Before 6 a. m. of each day over 30,000 copies of the St. Louis newspapers are dis- 
tributed by it. The company's city news business is similarly conducted, except that no ac- 
counts are kept, every customer being required to pay cash. The number of these sup- 
plied daily is 275, some of them twice a day. 

The stationery and book departments of this house are also made prominent features of 
its business. The book department is undoubtedly the most complete in number and variety 
of volumes and subjects to be found in St. Louis. 

CHARLES H. TURNER & CO. 

Real Estate and Financial Agents: 706 Pine Street. 

The Turner family so prominently figuring in the annals of St. Louis, is likewise asso- 
ciated most intimately with the development of the real estate business in this section. The 
present firm of Chas. H. Turner & Co., composed of the brothers Charles H. and Thomas 
T., is a successor of the old house established by their father, Henry S. Turner, at the same 
eligible location, 706 Pine street. 

They do a large business in renting property belonging to resident property owners, and 
also represent, in St. Louis, several non-resident capitalists. In addition to the collection 
of rents and the care of leased property, the firm also sells property and as financial agents 
advances loans on mortgages and other securities, on realty. The house has charge of many 
prominent business buildings as well as residences, and among the best of the former is the 
new and elegant Turner building, one of the finest in finish and most conveniently arranged 
buildings for offices in the West, on Eighth street, opposite the new Custom House. A view 
of the building appears on the opposite page. The firm is well and favorably known through- 
out Western commercial circles, and its business is constantly increasing. 

HULL & STEELE. 

Live Ssnck Oummission Merchants: Office, Uooins 7 and S, Union Stock Yards. 

As is well-known, live stock from the West and Northw est goes largely to Chicago on 
account of transportation rates more favorable to that market than to this. Hence it is that 
this firm gets most of its trade from Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Texas, Southern Illinois, 
Kentucky, Tennessee, Iowa, and the Western Territories. Messrs. E. B. Hull and R. A. 
Steele are the principals in the concern. Mr. Hull has been about six or eight years in this 
line, about five years as a partner with Mr. Steele. The latter has had a lifelong ex|)erience in 
the business. He was raised in the good old county of Pike, famed in song and jest as the 
Nazareth of the distinguished Joe Bowers. From his earliest years Mr. Steele has been in 
one way or another engaged in the handling of stock. As a boy he served at the trade. Be- 
fore coming to St. Louis he was a country trader in cattle and hogs, and was called a first 
rate buyer. He thus acquired a thorough and practical knowledge of the traffic in cattle, 
horses, sheep and hogs. Formerly he was doing business at the Broadway Stock Yards, 
afterwards was one of the firm of Steele, Givens & Co., and again was in business as Steele 
Bros. It is now sixteen years since he first entered into competition with the dealers of this 
market, and is thus one of the oldest left in the city, many of those that were here doing 
business when he came having removed to the National Yards. 

For the past few years Missouri has been more of a sheep raising State than otlievv\ise. 
Losses by dogs, etc., are now nominal, and the business is more profitable than it used to be. 
The Union Stock Yards are the chief sheep market of this vicinity. Horses and mules are 
received there, but sales of them are made almost altogether at the stables on Broadway. 
The firm of Hull iS: Steele dispose of about eight or ten thousand head of cattle yearly, four 
or five times as many hogs, and perhaps 6,000 sheep in the same time. The establishment 
has a good name " all round." Stock should be consigned to them at the Union Stock 
Yards. 



THK INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 



THE EXCELSIOR HARVESTING MACHINES. 

}Ioi>\tr .V (i.iniMe M.nmf.icfurcrs, M i;iinisl>iir>4, Ohio; Gcorjjc N. Scott, General Ajrent, .'^t. Louis, Ke- 
pairs Machines iinil Bintlev Twine : 1107 Clark Avenue. 

Ticvious to iSSj the traile of this establishment was haiuUed from other i>oints, Messrs. 
IToovi-r & ("iamble only maintaining a transfer house here. I5ut about that time the gentral 
expansion of their business in Missouri, Southern Illinois and Kansas, induced them to estab- 
lish an agency here, with Mr. Scott as Manager 





Messrs. Hoover and l.iiiil'U- numufacture Excelsior Harvesters and Excelsior Mowers 
oidy. The works owned by them have been in operation now for forty years, under their 
and other names. They have agencies at Indianapolis, Ilarrisburg, Pennsylvania; Des 
Mt.>ines, Iowa; Madison, Wisconsin; and in other large centers of population, together 
with local agencies in all the agricultural ilistricts. Send for circulars or any other inlorma- 
tion to Ui. N. Scott, 1 107 Clark Avenue. 

HERMAN LEVY & CO. 

Connnissitni Merchants, anil Pealers in Iliiles, Furs, Wool, Sheep Pelts, Tallow, Deer Skins, (iinseng, 
etc., with FNirs a Specialty ; 20 North ^fain Street. 

A general commissimi business, with hides, furs and wool as his specialties, and more 
particularly furs, was undertaken three years ago by Mr. Herman Levy under the firm name 
in the caption to this account. To say that Mr. Levy has been successful in his venture is 
to put it but moderately, for, although so short a time has elapsed he has, by diligent and 
shrewd management, established a satisfactory business. Mr. Levy has conducted his affairs 
so that he is regarded by both buyer anil seller with implicit confidence. Orders entrusted 
to him are jiromptly executed, and returns are expeditiously and accurately made. Other 
excellent commercial traits commend him to the trade as thoroughly accomplished in his line 
and always trustworthy. 

During the season of 1S83-4, Mr. Levy handled coon, mink, skunk, opossum, fox, 
i-tter. beaver, wolf and bear skins to the aggregate amount of 552,235 ]ueces. This was 
two thirds of all the furs shi]-)ped to St. Louis. These figures indicate the business he does 
w ith the traders of Missouri, Illinois, .\rkansas. Mississippi and Texas, For the season of 
1S84-85 (Fall and Winter) this percentage will hold good, showing that he is the heaviest 
dealer here. 



THE SOUTHERN BOILER AND SHEET IRON WORKS. 

Richanl Gar>tang, Manufacturer ot Boilers, Tanks, anil every description of Sheet Iron Work; 
Kepairing a Specialty: IJ43 South Secoml Street. 

Ml. Richard Garstang, of 1243 South Second street, is so conservative a man that he 
makes it a point never to advertise. This notice of his business is consented to by him only 
to satisfy the general desire to have this record of the industries of the city in 18S5 as com- 
plete as possible. He very modestly desires no more to be said of him than that he estab- 
lished himself in business in a small way in 18(13, that he now has twenty skilled mechanics 
in his employ, and that he is the manufacturer of Garstang's Patent Feed Water Heater and 
Filterer Combined, one of the most useful t>f recent applications to steam machi.ierv. 
Uj>on this brief but truthful statemeiit'of his affairs he is content to let his own and the repu- 
fion c>f his works rest. 



TUli INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. H9 




DAVID CARLISLE. 

M.nu.KU... ot Cr,..Ucl K I, an,! Deal.r in all Wind, of Gr.in, H.v, Bran, etc.: n, a..a ,.6 

Chestnut Street. 

David Carlisle i. the st.ccesso.- to the lirm of Anderson & Carlisle, whom he bought out 
-ear a<.o last February, since which time he has managed the affairs of h.s house smg y 
na .l.,n«, and satisfactorily to all his patrot.age. Since his purchase he has enlarged the 

premises an<l greatly increased his facilities for turning 
out crushed feed f.-r horses and cattle, a change that has 
.resulte.l in an expansion of his trade. Two corn mils, 
an.l a i=; horse-power engine, are required to supply the 
demands upon him for crushed feed of all kinds, including 
grain, oats, barley, rye, flax-seed, etc., which are crushed 
,to order in quantities to suit the purchasers of this vicinity 
and of Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and the adjacent 
Southern Stales. . , 

«»i^ >^»ii^«diK?a!^ ,v.^<».«»- Acknowledged to be the best and most economical 

f^T^f^ses an^cattle, the demand upon this establishment ^as been large, because of 
i,s superior facilities and prompt and thorough business metho.ls. Mr. Carlisle s 
therefore in a thriving condition. 

THE TEICHMANN COMMISSION CO. 

Cl. . H. Teichn.ann, President; Adolph Bang. Vice-President; ^'^^^^^'^'^''^^^^Z^J;;;'- "^ 
1 Uenschen, Se;retary ; John Tu.nbach. Assistant Secretary ; Gra.n and Fh,ur Con,n„ss,on 

Merchants: 25 South Main Street, Between Market and \\alnut Streets. 

This concern was incorporated in 1882 for the advancement of its interests and in 

furtherance of the great industries to which it confmes its operations, vi., gram and flour. 

Long prior to that time however, the principals in the house had been a -^f -^f l^'^'"!;" 

.u ,1. .f »f St T onis IS tlie firm of Teichmann & Co., which was founded in 1857. iii<- 

person as representative of the spirit and characteristics of the St. Louis mercnants. 
one that leads rather than follows the events of the market. 

THE S. E. GROTE PAINT STORE CO. 

Successors to Pettes & Leathe (who were established in .856). Wholesale and Retail Dealers in 
Painters' Supplies : S. E. Cor. Seventh and Si. Charles Streets. 

This house began business with the purchase of the paint trade of Pettes & Leathe in 
188- Mr S E.Grote being the principal in the new establishment for two years thereafter. 
The"next year the firm was known as Grote & Scott, and upon the latterjs death incorpora- 
tion was .'sorted to (February last), with the following officers: S. E. Grote, President, 

H^nrv KMiifield Secretary; Wni. Stemker, Vice-President. 

Heniy Kaufield Secreury ^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^^ Sotithwestern country with a 

':°f;'^^^n,mn,,;:«„r.,» a„d car buil.ler,. The capital *f ,„»„',, *-„3;,' 
*,- rwii floe-, not hv anv means rei>resent the volume of its trade. Us annual transactions 
are'SSbablytr inestha"suminlmount. Mr. Grote attends personally to the manage- 
menrand^na's a particular effort to satisfy the wants of house, carriage and car painter., 
also frescoers, scenic artists and decorators. 



150 THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 

A. CAFFERATA, SONS & CO. 

Importers and Wholesale Dealers in Tropical Fruits, California and Florida Oranges, etc.; Iniixuted 
Macaroni, Vermicelli, Olive Oil, etc. : Nos. 23 and 25 South Fourth Street. 

In 1854, this pioneer establishment of the kind in St. Louis was founded by A. Caffeiata, 
who remained at its head up to the time of his death in 1881. In the development of this 
new industry his efforts met large recompense and reward, and its steady growth was hailed 
with much satisfaction by the leading commercial men of the Mississippi Valley, who saw, 
through the fruit interest, desirable business relations maintained not only between St. Louis 
and its naturally tributary territory, but with the distant Pacific coast and foreign lands as 
well. 

Under the direction of the enterprising and far seeing pioneer, aided subsequently by 
active and energetic younger members of the hrm. the business continued to grow until it 
reached its present mammoth proportions, needing, foi tnt dispatch of business, very com- 
modious store-rooms and basement, covering 50x140 feet, at Nos. 23 and 25 South Fourth 
street. Here are, in season, found large supplies of Florida and California oranges, of 
which the house makes a specialty, and fresh tropical fruit m every variety, as well as nuts, 
dates, figs, raisins, imported macaroni, vermicelli, olive oil, etc. The house imports foreign 
goods direct, and maintaining business connections in New York, New Orleans anil San 
Francisco, is enabled to make purchases promptiy upon the arrival of fruits. Always the 
leading house in its line, the origmal designation of the firm, as well known abroad as at 
home, is maintained. The present partners are, L. Ij. Cabsenelli, F. 1. Cafferata, A.J. 
Cafferata, and Charles DeVoto, and under their active and energetic management the busi- 
ness has continued to increase territorially and otherwise. The fruits in which the firm deal 
are the finest, and are received ana shipped with such care, prom]3tness and dispatch that 
they reach their deslinalion in the finest condition. 

T. WRIGHT & CO. 

Dealers in and Importers of Fine Cigars; 300 and 302 Olive Street; Branch House, S. E. Corner 

Eighth and Olive Streets. 

A review of the leading business houses of St. Louis would not be complete without 
mention of the firm of T. Wright & Co., manufacturers of the celebrated Havana-filled 
*' Laurel " 5-cent cigar. This well-known house was established by Mr. T. Wright in 1866. 
Like many other establishments of note, it was started on a small scale, but by the 
energy and thoroughgoing business qualifications for which the brothers Wright are con- 
spicuous, a trade has been built up of which any house might well feel proud. The reputa- 
tion of this house for handling the very best goods in their line is too well known to instance. 
Messrs Wright & Co. are agents for the following first-class firms: Straiton & Storm, the 
largest manufacturing firm in the world; Seidenberg & Co., Key West cigars; Lozano, 
Pendess & Co., pure Havana cigars. This firm, which is energetic and successful, has a 
trade scattered throughout the United States. Mr. T. Wright came here from New York, 
where he had long been engaged in his present line. He takes a trip to Havana once or 
twice a year, which excursion is a matter of both business and pleasure. He is a fine 
judge of cigars and tobacco stock, and indeed is considered an expert of no mean ability. 

THE ST. LOUIS SAW WORKS. 

Joseph W Branch, Anthony Schulte, Robert L. Fosburgh (Branch, Crookes & Co.); Manufacturers 
ot all kinds of Saws, Planing Knives, etc.: 114 and 116 Vine Street; Works, 3000 North Broadway. 

Previous to his coming to St. Louis, Mr. Joseph W. Branch, now so thoroughly well 
known to this community from his connection with numerous business and financial concerns 
of importance, manufactured saws in New York City. He first began in the same line here 
in 1849, as a member of the firm of Branch, Crookes & Frost. That lasted until 1857, when 
upon the retirement of Mr. Frost the firm name was changed to what has since become a 
notable name amongst the industries of St. Louis — " Branch, Crookes & Co." Mr. Crookes 
died in 1874. Messrs. Schulte and Fosburgh, the foreman and business manager, were then 
admitted to an interest. These gentlemen, with the original founder, make up the present 
comjiany— a company which, employing between 50 and loo men, markets its most superior 
products so far away as Russia and South America, besides having an immense tradi- at 
home. Mr. Branch, as is well known, has accumulated a great fortune from this and other 
bi" enterprises. His associates in the saw company are about as well known as he. 



lliK INUUSiKlES Vf ST. LUUIS. I 5 JS 

THE GRAHAM PAPER CO. 

Aliinufacturers and Dealers: B. 15. Graham, President; A.D.Cooper, Secretary: 217 and 219 North 

Main Street. 

Without exaggeration this company may safely be said to be one of more than & mere 
local celebrity. It was notable in the paper trade prior to its incorporation in 18S0. Sales- 
to Mexican, Sandwich Island and other foreign patrons indicate that this house makes no 
limit as to its field, and considers the world its territory. Mr. H. B.Graham, now the Vice- 
President of the company, although not the founder of the house, has been connected with 
it since its first transactions in 1855. 

Number 217 North Main street contains but a small portion of the stock carried by this- 
concern. The premises there are used as oftices and salesrooms. Besides these quarters 
the company has a building at Sixth and O'Fallon streets, and some five or six warehouses 
for paper and paper stock, which are necessary adjuncts to the main establishment. With 
these conveniences and most complete facilities, it is prepared to do business in competition 
with any house here or elsewhere. About 150 hands are employed by it, and the yearly 
sales exceed $1,000,000. 

This house has a custom of its own, but its managers are brisk, aspiring and pushing 
business men, always ready to seize the opportunities of commerce, and steadily striving to 
enlarge their operations. Thirty years uninterrupted service in one line, marked by a con- 
stant expansion of the patronage of the house, are surely indications of its stability. 

lb OSWEGO STARCH FACTORY. 

T- Kingsford & Son, Manufacturers, Oswego, N. Y. 

The name that heads this account is a familiar one in the households as in the markets 
of the world. Many years o4 manufacture has made the name oi Kingsford conspicuous as- 
that of a commodity world-famous for its purity and merit. This company has, directly and 
indirectly, over 1,000 hands in its employ. The goods made by this factory are sold by it 
from its own agencies in all the principal cities of the world, every European, American and 
Australian center being thus supplied. Kingsford's starch has secured a higher reputatior> 
and more extensive use than any other manufacture, the demand having continuously in- 
creased until the production now consumes 1,250,000 bushels of corn yearly, making about 
12,000 tons of starch — 40 tons per day. Jobbers' net price list furnished upon application. 

JAMES WHITELAW. 

Printers' Machinist: 107 Marliel Street. 

Exceptional prosperity has attended the efforts of the subject of this sketch since the 
establishment of his very complete works at 107 Market street. The high quality of his work, 
the skill and accomplishments he has displayed in designing special and labor saving ma- 
chinery on demand, have attracted in a very few years a most liberal patronage. Making a 
specialty of imjiiovements and repairs in printers', bookbinders' and lithographers' machinery 
and fine tools, lie may almost be said to have a monopoly of that trade in this vicinity, cus- 
tom coming to him as it does from Illinois, from the interior of this State, from Kansas, 
and in fact from all the adjacent business centers. Special attention is given by this concern, 
not only to printing machinery, but to shafting, pulleys, hangers, stamping dies, gear cutting, 
and all the sorts of manufacturing apparatus in use. The very best artisans only are em- 
ployed, and work is invariably delivered on time. 

Mr. Whitelaw, it may be mentioned, was for nineteen years general foreman for the St. 
Louis Type Foundry before venturing for himself. 

JACOB C. C. WALDECK & CO. 

General Provision Dealers in all Kinds of Fresh and Cured Pork, etc. : General Store, 1 11 Market 
Stieet; Brand) Office, 2419 McNair Avenue. 

Prior to 1879 this house, now recognized as one of the busiest and soundest in the whole- 
sale quarter, was in the retail trade at the Biddle Market, but in that year prosperity had so 
far attended the enterprise and energy of the partners that it was determined to embark in 
the provision traffic upon a larger scale. Accordingly business was carried on with marked 
success at No. 117 Market street, from which point removal was made to accommoi'atc the 
ex|ianding patronage of the house in 1884. This house is rated high in the general estL-em^ 



THE INUUSTKIi:S OF ST. LOL13. 



not alone for the liigh quality of its provisions, but for the amount of its yearly transactions, 
>vhich reaching $75,000 per year is annually increasing. The trade is not confined to 'he 
city, recent improvements and arrangements having been made to satisfy the country trade, 
rdso a greater warehouse capacity, enabling Messrs. Waldeck & Co. to compete now more 
activelv for interior custom. The summer specialties of this house's trade are, provisions 
and hams, with fresh meats in winter. Besides these a reputation has been established by 
the house for breakfast bacon, hams, shoulders, dried beef, choice kettle lard, sausage, dry 
salt meats, etc. A particular specialty is sweet-pickled hog's tongue, boneless neck-roll, 
cheek meat, etc., and during the packing season, fresh pork tenderloins, spare ribs, and 
-ausage meat, upon all of which the house greatly prides itself. 

Goods are delivered to any part of the city and at the depots free of charge; country 
orders are solicited. 

R. HARTMANN & CO. 

Com mission Merchants for the Sale of Butter, Cheese, Eggs, Beans, Peas, Dried Fruits, Poultry, Game 
and Produce Generally: 101 North Main Street, Northwest Corner Chestnut Street. 

Mr. R. Hartmann. had been thirteen years in the produce business before establishing 
bimself in the house at No. loi North Main street, and will be remembered as a partner in 
the commission line with G. E. Wetzel at Second and Market streets. If experience counts 
lor anything, it will thus be seen that he has most superior l)usiness qualifications. Since 
venturing by and for himself, Mr. Hartmann has been remarkably successful, and is rapidly 
distancing in the race for patronage many of his competitors. His transactions for 1884 
reached the amount of $175,000, and the indications for 1SS5 are even more satisfactory. 
This prosperity has not been a matter of good fortune altogether. It has been the result of 
<hre\\d, careful, and industrious management, Mr. Hartmann being a man of details and 
lact. His special lines are butter and cheese, his field of operation Colorado, Texas, Arkan- 
sas, Kansas and Missouri. Receipts of produce from Ohio, West Virginia, New York, 
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, and the interior of this State, also help to swell profits, 
'thoroughly posted and indefatigable in his chosen pursuit, he is a sterling representative of 
ihe present generation of business men, and a fine example of the enterprising merchants of 
St. Louis. 

TEN BROEK & JONES. 

Collections — Estate: — B;uiUruptcy: 30^ Nmth Eiylith Street, Turner Building. 

As incidental to an account of the industries of the city, at this date, mention is here 
made of an establishment that has contributeil not a little to the general stability by its ser- 
vices as intermediary between creditor and debtor, and that may be truly said to have been a 
more satisfactory agency therein than the most exhaustive litigation. 

The firm of Ten Broek & Jones make a specialty of the collection of mercantile claims, 
and having much of that sort of business entrusted to them, have devised and put in opera- 
tion a system of correspondence, with retained attorneys, thoroughly organized throughout 
all the country, which is much more effective than any individual effort in the same direction 
possibly could be. In their peculiar line they are without a rival in the Western country. 

Their joint experience covers a period of something like a quarter of a century. First 
associated with the law firm of Phillips & Stewart, Messrs. Ten Broek & Jones purchased ot 
those parties the whole business and themselves elaborated the system under which (hey 
operate. In place of the commercial reports they have their own reference books, and are 
employing a method that trial and experience has proven to be almost perfect. They have 
now upon their books the record of over thirty thousand cases that have been handled by 
ihem at various points and with signal success. That distinguished practitioner, Judge 
Thomas Metcalfe, is retained by them as counsel. There are about twenty other expert em- 
ployes, viz , attorneys, clerks, traveling adjusters, etc. 

Bv means of these extraordinary facilities, this firm is enabled to undertake collection-; 
in any i>art of the globe. The Bank of Commerce, the Howe Scale Co , the Greeley-Burn- 
ham Co., Rice Stix & Co., the L. M. Rumsey Co., the Sam'l Cupples house, Rosenheim .v 
Levis, and others of the most substantial houses of this vicinity are numbered amongst tin- 
patrons of this firm. Their agency is used exten>ively by Eastern manufacturers and jobbeis 
as a distributing point for Western and Southern business. 

Charges for services rendered by this firm are at a fixed rate and always on percentage. 
Merchants making their own collections must pay their attorneys here as well as those en- 
gaged at the point of collectioa. The double charge is saved by doing business with this 
office. 



THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 



153 



THE HAMILTON-BROWN SHOE CO. 

A. D. Brown, President; E. F. ^Villiams, Vice-President; R. F. Spencer, Secretary; Manufacturers 
and Jobbers of Boots and Shoes exclusiveh' for Cash ; Corner of Tenth and Wasliing^ton 

Avenue. 

The figures published by the S/ioe and Leather Reporter are authority for the state- 
ment that this is by far the largest shoe house in the West, and that its transactions make it 
fairly to be compared with any in the United States. That journal credits it with greater 
receipts than any house in the country — receipts greater by far than any other St. Louis shoe 
house. The establishment dates from 1872, when it was started by Hamilton & Brown, the 
former of whom was with the Appleton, Noyes & Co. (in the same line) before that time, 
and the latter in general merchandise at Columbus, Miss. 

The incorporation was entered into Jan. ist, 1884. There are 250 employes in the ser- 
vice of the house — selling, manufacturing, etc. It has twenty travelers going over the 
States of Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, New Mexico, Illinois, Georgia, Alabama, 
Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Arkansas and Kentucky. All the ladies', misses' 
and children's fine shoes sold by it are of its own manufacture. Its seven floors are re- 
served, the first, second, third and fourth, for its stock and salesrooms; the fifth and sixth, 
for manufacturing purposes; and the basement for rubber goods, in which line it has the 
agency of the Western and Garden State Rubber Companies. 

Mr. Williams, the 



Vice-President of the 
Hamilton - Brown 
Shoe Company, was 
a traveling man for 
the house for about 
three years before he 
took an interest. 
Mr. Spencer, the Sec- 
retary, was given an 
interest in the house 
for his efficiency and 
business qualifica- 
tions. He has been 
connected with it for 
about four years. Mr. 
Hamilton lives in San 
Antonio, Texas. 

Mr. Brown is the 
President of the Pitch- 
fork Land and Cattle 
Co., whose office is 
with the Hamilton- 




Brown Shoe Co. This 
concern is incorporat- 
ed also under the 
Missouri laws, with a 
capital stock of $300,- 
000. It has a ranch 
in Texas, of 75,000 
acres, together with 
30,000 more that it 
leases. On this tract 
it has 14,000 head of 
cattle, the yearly in- 
crease from which lot 
is valued at $90,000. 
Mr. E. F.Williams is 
Vice - President and 
Treasurer of this com- 
pany; D. B.Gardner, 
who lives on the ranch, 
being Secretary and 
Manager. Amongst 
other prominent peo- 
ple who are interested 



' in this enterprise may be mentioned: 'A. P. Bush, Jr., formerly of Taylor & Bush, com- 
I mission merchants here; A.W.Roberts, formerly of Jarrett, Gilliland & Roberts, whole- 
I sale grocers; and W. H. Carroll, at one time of the Hamilton-Brown Co. These few facts 
j are recited simply to show the resources and standing of the house which is the subject of 

this brief sketch. 

Mr. Brown, besides the investments already spoken of, is interested in the Commercial 

Bank, is a heavy stockholder in the Laclede Gas Company, and is one of the Directors of 

the Exposition. Mr. Williams has been connected with the house since its establishment, 
j and has the reputation of having been one of the most expert salesmen in his line whilst thus 

engaged. The house first began to do business in 1872. At the end of four years from that 
I time, Messrs. Williams and W. H. Carroll, by their ability and business tact, had each 
1 acquired a partnership interest. 
\ The block occupied by the Hamilton-Brown Shoe Company is conspicuous in the whole- 

isale quarter by reason of its size and striking appearance. The business methods of this 
house are peculiar to it. Transactions are invariably for cash. When this system was 
adopted by it, it was generally commented on by competitive establishments as an utter im- 
possibility; nevertheless the house has made it a success; in fact has prospered bevond all 
( outside expectation. This prosperity has given the principals the reputation of being model 
tradesmen; merchants considerably in advance of contemporary concerns. 



154 'I'^'E INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 

W. T. BARBEE. 

Wrought Iron Fence and Wire Woiks: Office and Works, Lafayette, Ind. ; St. Louis Office, 517 Pine 
Street, P. L. Betts, Manager; Chicago Office, 100 Lake Street. 

This is a prosperous enterprise that has had an existence of eighteen years in Lafayette, 
Ind., where it originated, and where its works are located. But the establishment has made 
an enviable record in St. Louis during the three years of its location here, under the expe- 
rienced direction of Mr. P. L. Betts, the energetic resident manager. The heavy wire 
partitions separating the various Divisions in the Post-office Department at the spacious new 
Custom House give indication of the practical purpose to which their facilities can be utilized 
to render more convenient and adorn edifices of this character. 

The wire enclosures to the passenger elevators in the Emilie and Pope's office buildings 
on Ninth and Olive streets were furnished by this concern, as was also the large wire roof- 
signs and ornamental iron work at the new depot of the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad. 
This firm makes a specialty of the manufacture of standard wrought-iron fence, and their 
works, which employ 175 men; and capacity to turn out i,00ofeet a day admits of placing 
the fence at a price that will bring it within the reach of all; and considering that it lasts a 
life-time without resetting or repairs, it is not only far more ornamental and permanent, but 
is really cheaper than wood. The grounds of the Sacred Heart Academy, St. Louis, Ozark 
Hotel, Springfield, Mo., School Buildings at Kansas City, and many other public and private 
institutions, are enclosed by the standard wrought-iron fence, and testify to the general excel- 
lent reputation attained by the merits of the productions of this concern. In these and other of 
the infinite variety of wire work made at the Barbee factory, the St. Louis office does a large 
business locally, but is now prepared to fill orders from outside territory to any extent, and also 
handles the Richmond Star Lawn Mower. The office location, at 517 Pine street, is a very eli- 
gible one, and with Manager Betts' energy in pushing business the continued increase of the 
business is assured, more especially as the lines he handles are admitted to be very superior. 

H. D. MEYER. 

General Commission Merchant; 20 South Main Street. 

This gentleman has been twenty years a commission dealer in St. Louis, his entry into 
barter and trade having been made in 1865. Prior to that time he was in the river service 
as book-keeper for the old Illinois Packet Company, but having an ambition beyond a sala- 
ried employment, he started on his own account just about the close of the war. 

Mr. Meyer confines his operations mostly to the adjacent Missouri and Illinois sections, 
with which parts he has transactions annually to the amount of $200,000 or better. He is a 
gentleman of accommodating disposition and popular with all who have had dealings with him. 

THE AMERICAN SURETY CO. 

Bascome & Munson, St. Louis Agents; also General Underwriters: 304 North Eighth Street, Turner 

Building. 

Messrs. Bascome & Munson represent here the American Surety Company, of New 
York, which acts as surety for officers and employes of banks, railways, express, telegraph, 
and telephone companies, other corporations, and business houses. This is the only company 
organized in the United States devoted exclusively to suretyship. It transacts no other kind 
of business. It is the strongest company of the kind in the world. Its cash capital is 
$500,000. It has deposited $100,000 of its assets with the New York Insurance Depart- 
ment as a special fund for the protection of all parties holding its bonds. The company acts 
as surety on bonds required in courts. 

In Great Britain the preference for corporate'bonds is universal with individuals, banks, 
corporations, and all the government departments. Hon. Cornelius Walford, the eminent 
actuary, of London, says, in his "Insurance Cyclopaedia," page 289, that throughout the 
United Kingdom "private suretyship is a thing of the past." 

"The advantages of the system are so obvious, and the objections to private guarantee 
so many and so great, that it is surprising that the latter has not long since been su] n- 
seded by that of public companies. To a man of refined and delicate sensibilities, occu] v- 
ing a position of trust and responsibility, nothing could be more embarrassing than to in 
under the necessity of soliciting his personal friends to become pecuniarily responsible t 
his fidelity and good behavior." 

The company is national in its character, its capital stock being held by representativ 
men in the various large business centres of the country, and it will transact business in ail 
parts of the Uuited States. It has 12,000 available correspondents in this country, and pos- 



THE INDUSTRIES OF ST, LOUIS. 155 

sesses facilities for obtaining information not enjoyed by any other company. That the 
guarantees of a public company duly authorized by law are preferable in every way to the 
sureties given by individuals is obvious. 

Messrs. Bascome & Munson also represent here the London Assurance Corporation, of 
London, England, which has risks in the United States alone of over $100,000,000; the 
Queen Insurance Company, of London aad Liverpool, with $157,000,000 of risks; the Lan- 
cashire Insurance Co., of Lancashire, England, with $125,000,000; the Howard Insurance 
Company, of New York (founded in 1825), with $22,000,000 of risks. The North Ameri- 
can, of Boston, with $14,000,000; and the Louisville Underwriters Marine Company. 

With such facilities as this long list of standard agencies indicates, Messrs. Bascome & 
Munson may well be considered as representative of the underwriting business in St. Louis. 
Mr. Bascome has had twenty- five years' experience here, and has been five years in part- 
nership with Mr. Munson. Together, they have made a reputation as conservative under- 
writers, and they have made money for the companies they represent, whilst at the same time 
giving thorough satisfaction to their patrons. In brief, it may be said of this firm that they 
command their fair share of the insurance business in this section. The foreign fire com- 
panies, as everybody is aware, are conducted with the most scrupulous care, and are well 
regulated by the strongest laws of Great Britain, which, however, it must be admitted are 
not more binding than the enactments now in force in some of the older States. Bascome & 
Munson represent no companies that are not entirely secure, whatever the disaster that may 
overtake the community, be it by fire or otherwise. 

CASH, STEWART & OVERSTREET. 

Live Stock Commission Merch.ants, National Stock Yards: Office, Room 15, Exchange Building, 

Up stairs. 

J. G. Cash, R. B. Stewart and E. B. Overstreet, the members of this firm, have all had 
a most extended experience in the line in which their capital is invested. Mr. Cash came to 
St. Louis in 1864. He has been in live stock and commission ever since — first as part owner 
of the Broadway Retail Yards, then as owner of the North Missouri Stock Yards, which he 
;onducted about eight years, then as the founder of the Union Stock Yards, an establishment 
which was superintended by him for a twelvemonth, then again as Superintendent of the 
National Yards for two years; also as one of the firm of Moody, Cash & Co., J. G. Cash & 
Bro., Cash, Stewart & Co., and finally with Messrs. Stewart & Overstreet as a partner 
(March ist, 1884). 

Mr. Stewart's seventeen years' service at the business includes his membership in the firm 
of C. G. Buchanan & Co., his employment as salesman by Hillard, Manson & Co., and his 
entry into the firm described in this sketch. Mr. Overstreet from 1873 to 1884 was one of 
the firm of J. W. Oversl:reet & Co. He has never been in any other line than this. 

Messrs. Stewart and Overstreet personally attend to the cattle and sheep traffic of their 
firm. Mr. Cash, with an assistant, looks after the transactions in hogs. The firm sells an 
average of 2,000 cattle and 25,000 hogs and sheep a month. It is a liberal and accom- 
modating concern. 

SAM'L D. ^VARREN & CO. 

1 ■ 

I Manufacturers of Felt and Composition Roofing ; Dealers in Roofing Material ; Agents for the Barbour 

Asphalt Paving Co. of Washington, D. C. : Branch house in Kansas City: 
' St. Louis Office, No. 10 S. E. corner Fifth and Olive Streets 

Sam'l D. Warren & Co. have been doing business here since 1848, and have in that 
time acquired a reputation that brings to them the very best class of work, such for instance 
as the roof of the Chamber of Commerce building, the new Southern, the Lindell, Sam'l C. 
Davis' block, Wm. Barr's store, Dodd, Brown & Co.'s house, etc. The roofing materials 
used by this firm are of its own preparation. Some twenty-five men are employed by it 
here, and about the same number by its Kansas City branch. Out of town work is a spe- 
cialty of this house. 

Mr. P. S. Marquis of this firm is agent here for the Barbour Asphalt Paving Company, 
which has headquarters at the national capital, and agencies in all the principal cities of the 
country. This company has a lake of asphalt on the Caribbean Island of Trinidad, which 
is constantly replenishing itself. Its St. Louis works are at Cabanne avenue, on the Mis- 
souri Pacific and 'Frisco Railroads. The jmving of Locust street from Seventeenth street 
out to the West end, and Pine street from Nineteenth to Grand avenue, was done by it, two 
winters' wear showing no perceptible defect. In Chicago, Boston, Baltimore, New Orleans, 
and other large cities, the same sort of work has been done by- it. Its patent pavement is 
now superseding all others in this country. 



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THE KEYSTONE MANUFACTURING CO. 

St. Louis Branch House, Elijah L. Gait, Manager: 411 South Main Street. 

The illustration below shows but one of the many implements, designed to expedite 
and facilitate farming oper^.tions, that are manufactured by the Keystone Manufacturing Co., 
of Sterling, Ills. This cut has been selected to enliven the accompanying account of the 




Keystone works, because, if it were proposed to have engravings of all the machmery and 
appliances made by the company in this book, a very much larger volume would be neces- 
sary In truth there is no factory of the sort in the world — and the United States, as is 
well-known, leads all other countries in that particular — that makes and markets so great a 
variety of improved farming tools and conveniences as the one of which this account treats. 
The Keystone Company has branches in all the principal cities of the West. Its St. Louis 
house, although the latest establishment in point of time, is really one of the most important, 
because from it is supplied one of the closest settled farming sections of America. The 
house here is in charge of Mr. Elijah L. Gait, one of the managing oftkers of the Keystone 
corporation. Under his direction, the demand for the many specialties of the works has 
been fully met since 1883, which is the year the house was opened. An especially promising 
patronage has been developed in the line of Corn Shellers and Planters, for which articles 
the Keystone has long had an especial reputation. The Foust Hay Loader, here illustrated, 
the only hay loader made, is also this company's make. Descriptiv^e circulars mailed free. 
All inquiries promptly answered either by correspondence or by the Keystone's travelers. 

GOELITZ BROS. CANDY CO. 

Gustave Goelitz, President; Albert Goelitz, Vice-President; George Goelitz, Secretary; Manufacturing 
Confectioners and Dealers in Fruits, Nuts and Crackers, etc. : 500 North Main Street. 

This house is a new one in St. Louis, the brothers Goelitz having removed to St. Louis, 
from Belleville, Illinois, only last year. They had, however, been doing an extensive busi- 
ness in Belleville before that time, since 1869. It was hardly a new venture for them, there- 
fore, for they began with a patronage that they had already acquired from the States of Illi- 
nois, Missouri, Texas, Arkansas and Kansas. Their first year's business amounted to 
$125,000, and from all appearances a much larger trade will be done by the house 
in the future. Forty hands, whose wages reach the sum of $15,000 per year, are em- 
ployed. If enterprise, judgment and fine business qualifications deserve recognition and 
success, then the brothers Goelitz are in a fair way to accomplish the object of their removal, 
which was to enlarge their manufacturing facilities, so as to take advantage of the oppor- 
tunities that were expanding before them at Belleville, and for which purpose they now have 
ample capital and resources. 



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THE BRYAN-BROWN SHOE COMPANY. 

G. W. Brown, President; R, \V. Parcels, Secretary; Manufacturers of Boots and Shoes: Factory, 
Eighth and Walnut Streets; Offices and Salesrooms, Seventh and St. Charles Street. 

No establishment in St. Louis has done so much to develop the manufacture of boots 
and shoes in the West as the Bryan-Brovvn Shoe Company. The officers thereof, although 
quite young, as well as energetic business men, were really pioneers in the development of 
this industry West of the Mississippi, for although others had essayed the same effort before, 
it was with ill-success; hence it was left for the indefatigable industry and experience of 
youth to accomplish what others had failed in. The officers of the company had, however, a 
life experience in the shoe line, and organizing a firm about six years ago began manufactur- 
ing on a small scale. As trade developed and all obstacles were overcome, a corporation 
styled the Bryan-Brown Shoe Company was formed, with a capital stock of $150,000, and 
manufacturing facilities were greatly increased from time to time as occasion and the con- 
stantly augmenting trade of the house demanded. The company now maintains a fine goods 
factory at Eighth and Walnut street, St. Louis, with capacity of 1,200 pairs daily. The 
latter is a five-story building 50x140 feet, and there are 250 to 300 employes, chiefly men and 
girls. Here is made one of the trade specialties of the firm, their celebrated Blue Ribbon 
School Shoes, together with a full line of men's, boys', and youths', women's, misses' and chil- 
dren's fine shoes, machine sewed, hand sewed and hand turned ; and all heavy goods are made 
at their prison factory in Jeffersonville, Indiana, where they turn out goods of the best quality. 

The offices and salesrooms at Seventh and St. Charles streets are 35x75 feet, a five- • 
story building fully stocked with the wares manufactured by the company. Here the em- 
ployes number twenty-three, including twelve traveling salesmen, who visit, with samples of 
the season's styles, the dealers throughout the West, Southwest, and to some extent in 
Illinois and Indiana, who sell the goods of the company. The trade last year aggregated 
about $600,000, but it was not regarded as a good year for trade in general, so a large ad- 
vance upon these figures is expected in 1885, and seems warranted by the number of orders 
already received for fall goods. These are made to order somewhat in advance of the season. 
President G. W. Brown, of the company, was pronounced by the Leather Gazette, the 
organ of the trade in this section, as the youngest executive head of so large and important 
an industry in St. Louis, and in sketching his career that journal paid large tribute to his 
business energy and enterprising character. Secretary R. W. Parcels is also a very efficient 
officer. Mr. A. L. Bryan has not been connected with the company since February 19th, 1885. 

SCHAEFFER BROS. & POWELL. 

Manufacturers of Soaps, Candies, Refined Lard, Red Oil, Glycerine and Tallow; 325 and 327 North 

Second Street. 

The spirit and characteristics of the St. Louis manufacturers is admirably illustrated in 
the progress and methods employed by this conspicuous concern. From its very founda- 
tion, in 1837, by the late Nicholas Schaeffer, it has been conducted upon those principles of 
management that have developed American industries so rapidly as to make this age the 
most remarkable in the country's history. Nicholas Schaeffer was one of those men who 
seize upon an opportunity and turn it to their advantage. Beginning in the most humble 
fashion, but in an expanding community, he foresaw the possibilities of commerce in the 
West, and it is sufficient to say that his aspirations were fully realized. At the time of 
its establishment, Schaeffer's was the only factory of the sort west of the Mississippi. Be- 
fore his death, which occurred but a few years ago, he had not only built up an unrivalled 
trade, but had given, by his example, impetus to numerous imitators of his ambitious prac- 
tices. 

Upon his decease the works passed into most competent hands. His sons, Louis, Jacob 
and George, and Mr. Willis J. Powell, who had shared with him in the direction of affairs, 
continued the business with equal ardor. Under their direction and control the advance- 
ment has been continuous. The manufactures of the house are not only favorites in all the 
home markets, but are demanded abroad as well. The annual transactions vary with the 
condition of trade, but it is safe to say that no house in the country, of its line, excels it in 
exportations. The aggregate sales run up into the millions. The amount of raw material 
consumed in the various processes of manufacture can only be estimated by cargo measure- 
ments. The 300 or more employes of the factory represent only a fraction of those whose 
livelihood depends on the interests herein described. Hundreds of others are engaged in 
fnrnishing the crude stuff for the mechanical operations, and many others are indirectly 
engaged in the house's service. 

The immense resources of the concern give it special facilities for manufacturing cheaply 
which lesser establishments can not have. Thus this house manufactures its own red oil 



158 THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS, 

(used in the making of soap), and other manufacturers are dependent on this one for that 
material. The operations carried on require a segregation of the various interests con- 
trolled by this house. The main soap factory is at Barton aud Kosciusko streets. There, 
too, is the lard establishment and the box factory, covering an area 265x150 feet. Opposite 
these is the candle works and rendering house, covering an entire square of ground — from 
street to street. Permanent improvements have been made at these points, so that business 
on the greatest possible scale can be attempted. 

At this situation, too, is the manufactory of the firm's mottled soap, the article upon 
which the house stakes its reputation. More than 50,000 boxes of this commodity are ^.old 
every year. Special attention is given by this house to insuring merit in all productions bear- 
ing its name. A preferred article turned out by Schaeffer Bros. & Powell is the miners' 14- 
oz. and 16-oz. stearic acid candles — 4's and 6's; railroad, coach and stage candles — 3's, 4's 
and 5's. Also all kinds of machinery, railway, milling and mining oils. 

This is assuredly one of the greatest of American manufacturing houses. 

DAVID B. KIRK & CO. 

Flour Commission: 6 South Main Street. 

David B. Kirk was the "Co." of the firm of E. B. Ebert & Co. upon its establishment 
in 1865, and since his withdrawal therefrom has been operating solely on his own account. 
His house is one of the largest receivers of flour in St. Louis. Its annual shipping and 
export trade must be all of a million and a quarter in value. Trustworthy to an eminent 
degree, it enjoys a patronage coming from all over the United States, and its business meth- 
ods have been approved by numberless dealers in the staple who have had relations with it 
during the past twenty years. 

Sales upon commission made by this concern are properly and promptly conducted. 
Advances upon consignments to the house are liberal. The house at 6 South Main street is 
certainly representative of high character and commercial soundness. 

BUCK'S STOVE AND RANGE CO. 

Francis Palms, President; Jeremiah Dwyer, Vice-President; J. W. Bell, Treasurer, R. S. Buck, 

Secretary; J. W. Dwyer, Manager: M.inufacturers Buck's "Brilliant" Stoves and Ranges: 

Foundry and Genet al Offices, 3500 North Second Street; Sample and Sales Rooms, 

609 North Third, 6io North Fourth Street. 

Of all the different displays made at the grand World's Fair in New Orleans, in that 
same line, none attracted more attention than or was so very generally commended as the 
exhibit made by the Buck's Stove and Range Company, of St. Louis. Numerous other 
representations of the ingenuity and skill of American stove founders were there on exhibition, 
but the popular approval, as well as the honor of award, was given to the Buck's " Brilliant," 
so called from the fact that when in use the heat and light radiate from them as from a min- 
iature sun. It has now been demonstrated by a genuine competition with the best stoves 
manufactured in the world that the Buck's Stove and Range Company make the best stove 
and range for all purposes — cooking, heating, ornamental or what not. The history of the 
concern, which has grown great and prosperous from the profits of their enterprise, is that of 
numerous other special manufacturing concerns who have devoted their efforts to practical 
and utilitarian products, such as the articles in household demand — stoves, sewing machines, 
and the like. The foundation of the extraordinary business, which now requires a joint 
stock company and a score of officers to operate it, was laid in 1846, by C. H. Buck, with- 
out much display. On the start he was simply a dealer, and it was some years later before 
he attempted to manufacture. In his lifetime he was regarded as one of the leading makers 
of the country, and was held in corresponding repute. Mr. R. S. Buck, the present Secre- 
tary, is his son. In 1S70 the company was incorporated, taking the title " Buck's Stove 
Co.," afterward, upon reorganization, changing that designation to that which heads this 
account. Treasurer Bell, of this company, is Secretary of the Continental Land and Live 
Stock Company, the great Texas corporation with a national reputation. He is also a 
Director of the Bank of Commerce. President Palms and Vice-President Dwyer have in- 
terests also in the stove manufacturing industries of Detroit, Mich. The annual sales of 
this company are not less than $300,000, which can readily be comprehended when it is 
known that the weekly wages of its 250 employes are $3,500 and over the year round. The 
Buck's Stove and Range Company also manufactures a tine white enameled iron ware, which 
they make a specialty of, together with plumbers' goods, etc. 



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THE DOZIER-WEYL CRACKER CO. 

Jno. T. Dozier, President; Aug^ustus Weyl, Vice-President ; Lewis D. Dozier, Secretary : Factories, 
Sixtli and Pine, Sixteenth and Morgan; General Offices, Sixteenth and Morgan Street. 

The Dozier-Weyl Cracker Company of this city displayed its enterprise by exhibiting 
at the New Orleans World's Exposition, and was rewarded for its outlay by the grand gold 
medal for the finest and largest exhibit of goods in its line. The display made by it con- 
sisted of over 2,300 cans, showing the extraor- 
dinary niniiber of 1,208 different and distinct 
varieties of goods, the greatest ever made. 
This company is generally admitted to have the 
largest works of the kind in the world, their 
consumption being the enormous quantity of 
1,400 barrels of flour, and the output therefrom 
10,000 boxes of crackers daily. The two fac- 
tories employ some 350 hands. The trade lies 
all over the United States. This mammoth con- 
cern was incorporated in 1878, but it really 
dates its foundation from 1 832, when it was es- 
tablished by Joseph Garneau. Garneau retired 
in 1881, having been bought out in that year by 
the then thrifty firm of Dozier, Weyl & Co., whose senior 
member was Capt. Jas. Dozier, father of the principals in the 
company. Capt. Dozier was in his lifetime a sterling man. 
He was in various mercantile pursuits, and before the war was 
a steamboat owner, his son J. T. being interested with him. 
After the war he associated himself with Garneau, and to his 
high order of management much of the subsequent expansion 
of the house may be traced. 

Mr. L. D. Dozier, Secretary of this company, is reputed 

TRADE MARK to have many of his father's qualifications. He is distinctively 

a man of affairs with a mind for concerns of breadth. He has other investments besides 

this, and is an officer of several companies, associations and banking corporations, as also 

is his brother, the President. 

Mr. A. Weyl, like the Doziers, is a life-long resident of this vicinity. He has been in 
this one line all his life. He superintends the purchasing and manufacturing departments 
of the business, whilst Mr. L. D. Dozier looks after the office and financial details. This 
comjiany will exhibit its superiority by a generous display of its products at the Fall 
Exposition. 

TAUSSIG BROTHERS & CO. 

Wool and Woolen Goods : 4 and 6 South Main Street. 

Records of this house, running back to 1842, show that it was established by Abies & 
Taussig in that year, upon their retirement from the general dry goods business. Abies «S; 
Taussig was the firm name then for exactly twenty years, until in 1862 Taussig, Livingston & 
Co. succeeded them. The Taussig brothers, Charles and Morris, in turn became successors 
to that firm in 1872. The brothers are identified by numerous other interests than that of 
their house, with the commerce of St. Louis. Mr. Charles Taussig is President of t«'0 min- 
ing companies, whose dividends have added to the wealth of the few St. Louis stockholders. 
He is also a Director of the Franklin Insurance company of St. Louis. Morris Taussig, 
although busily engaged in the firm's affairs all his life, has still foimd time to act as a 
Director of the Merchants Exchange and of the American Central Insurance Company of St. 
Louis. 

From the foregoing account of their concerns it will be seen that the Taussigs stand 
high, not alone in their own line, but in the general esteem as well. In the trade they have 
long occupied a strong, position, their house being regarded as one that has all the solidity 
attaching itself to advanced age, combined with the energy and activity of a management 
still in its prime. They trade mostly with the section to the East and South of this point, 
and make specialties of Kentucky jeans. Western wools, etc. They are in all probability the 
most extensive dealers in feathers in this market. 

' The highest market price paid in cash. Liberal advances on consignments. Woolen 
( goods by the package." These are extracts quoted from the greeting they make to patrons 
on their business card. 



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AUG. GAST & CO. 

Aug. Gast, E. F. Wittier, L. J. W. Wall, O. D. Gray, Proprietors: Lithographing and Bank Note 
Engraving; 215, 217 and 219 Pine Street, St. Louis, and 20 Warren Street, New York City. 

The leading lithographic establishment in the United States had a very modest beginning 
indeed. When August Gast and his brother Leopold, who were pioneers in this line West 
of the Mississippi, commenced business in St. Louis in 1852, it was in a small store on 
Fourth street. The brothers had but a few years before emigrated from Germany. They 
had thorough knowledge of their art, however, and speedily developed and cultivated a 
taste for fine art in business circles hitherto content with the plainest style of printed an- 
nouncement. In the course of time Leopold Gast retired, and about fifteen years ago the 
firm was Gast, Moeller & Co., but upon the death of Mr. Moeller the style was changed to 
August Gast & Co., which it remains, the senior of the house still taking an active interest in 
the work of the establishment he founded. The additional conduct and management devolves 
on his younger partners, who have grown up in the business and are thoroughly practical 
men. For the last ten years the house has shown a steady and marvelous growth, which so 
far from being interrupted during the past year of general trade depression, showed a pre- 
cisely contrary result, it being found necessary to increase the working force of the St. Louis 
house alone by fifty hands. 

Referring especially to the parent house, some idea of its magnitude may be gained by 
the statement that three five-story buildings, adjoining, are utilized by the firm. In the way 
of machinery there is an hundred horse-power boiler and engine, fourteen large lithographic 
presses, and the finest of apparatus and appliances used in bank note engraving. An hun- 
dred and ninety hands are employed in the various departments of the establishment, and the 
specialties of the house comprise bankers' and merchants' fine stationery, show cards, fine 
colored labels, banners, trade marks, and other high grade mercantile devices and designs. 
In the wonderful advance in this line, which has promoted lithographing and engraving to the 
domain of art, Aug. Gast & Co. have ever been in the foremost rank. Indeed, their work, 
which challenges admiration everywhere, is as widely admitted to be superior, and the house 
combines this pre-eminence with a deservedly high reputation for strictly fair dealing and 
reasonable prices. 

In considering the extent of trade it may be said that including the field occupied by the 
New York house, it not only comprehends supplying the leading banks and merchants in every 
State in the Union, but occasional shipments are made to Mexico, Central and South Amer- 
ica, Australia, Great Britain, Spain, and other foreign countries. About ninety hands are 
employed in the New York house, which is also supplied with every variety of modern ma- 
chinery adapted to the production of artistic work. 

Mr. O. D. Gray, well-known in St. Louis, is the active member of the firm conducting 
the New York house, assisted at times by Mr. E. F. Wittier and L. J. W. Wall, the latter 
of whom has but recently returned to the parent house after a prolonged sojourn in New 
York. Mr. Gast remains here continuously. All the members of the firm are interested in 
both houses, and the dimensions of the business of both establishments is continually in- 
creasing, which, perhaps, few others in this line could say of last year when depression 
characterized trade in general. And there are none to deny that the prosperity of Aug. Gast 
& Co. is eminently deserved. 

GIFFERT & KOSTUBA. 

Manufacturers of Parlor Furniture, Students' Chairs, Lounges, Patent Rockers, etc. : 900 10904 South 

Seventh Street. 

This firm is composed of two practical workmen, John H. Giffert and C.J. Kostuba, 
who five years since formed a copartnership and embarked in manufacture on their own 
account. That they have been successful is due to their thorough knowledge of the trade, 
their business energy, and to the staple and durable character of the furniture they make. 

Keeping up with the fashions in patterns and designs, and originating some of the lat- 
ter, they do not imitate the practice of some modern manufacturers in cultivating mere 
showiness at the expense of aurability. On the contrary, their parlor furniture, students' 
chairs, patent rockers, lounges, etc., are not only beautiful and artistic in design but made to 
last. 

The firm occupy three stories and basement, at 900 to 904 South Seventh street. They 
employ six or more expert salesmen, and about fifteen men in all. Their trade is chiefly in 
the city, where their goods are in great popular request, but an outside Western trade is 
rapidly developing, and last year their sales in tributary points were quite numerous. 



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THE POND ENGINEERING CO. 

Frank H. Pond, Proprietor; Engineers anU Contractors for the erection of Steam and Hydraulic Ma- 
chinery: 707 and 709 Market Street, Masonic Building. 

This company, which has done business in St. Louis for the past eight years, was estab- 
lished by the present proprietor, who operated at first under the style of "Frank H. Pond." 
Three years ago, owing to increased business and an enlargement of its field of usefulness, 

^ ~ ~1 ' "^^ '^^"Xj . the firm name was changed to the " Pond En- 

gineering Co." Under this title the company is 
well-known throughout the length and breadth 
of the Mississippi Valley. Their territory ex- 
tends from Minnesota to Texas, and as far West 
as Colorado They have erected numerous com- 
plete outfits for steam and motive power of all 
sorts and for all purposes, and have given satis- 
1 action in every instance. They pay especial 
:Utention to the economical operation of ma- 
: inery, and all their goods are designed with 
-jecial reference to economy of fuel, few and 
lexpensive repairs, and low cost of operation 
and maintenance. 

The water-works department of this com- 
pany deserves especial mention. In this line 
there is perhaps no hetier kik'w u mm m this part of the country, as they have furnished and 
erected machinery for some twenty Western cities. They deal directly with the city authori- 
ties, or with the cities' contractors. The three mammoth flour mills last erected in the city of 
St. Louis, having an aggregate capacity of nearly 3,000 barrels in twenty-tour hours, were 
furnished with steam and motive power by the Pond Engineering Co. Another direction in 
which they at present find demand for their goods is electric lighting. The duty required of 
machinery for this purpose is very severe. It is to the credit of this company that their out- 
fits have always given satisfaction. They are prepared to furnish engines, pumps, boilers, 
heaters, etc., delivered where desired, erect foundations and furnish and make steam con- 
nections; in fact build the plant complete, ready for service. 

Their engineering department is also worthy of mention. They are provided with the 
latest apparatus, and are prepared to make tests to determine the efficiency of any device or 
machine. Also to locate defects and suggest remedies. Drawings and specifications are 
furnished; also services of competent engineers and superintendents to look after the con- 
struction and erection of machinery. An illustrated catalogue, descriptive ot their line of 
goods and of the style of work they are prepared to do, will be mailed on application, to 
those interested in the subject. 




THE DUGGAN-PARKER HARDWARE MANUFACTURING 

COMPANY. 

H. C. Duggan, President and General Manager; C. S. Russell, Vice-President ; John P. Hermann, Jr., 

?ecretary and Treasurer ; Manufacturers of Refined Air Furnace Malleable Irou and Gray 

Iron Hardware ; S06 to S33 South Twelfth Street. 

This establishment is an incorporation of 1SS2, but it had been in operation some two 
years before that. The parties in interest are all pretty well known, not only here but all 
over the Western country. President Duggan is a lifelong resident of the city. He was in 
the iron trade, has been in it always, and until going into this enterprise was manager of the 
Malleable Iron Company. Mr. Russell is a native of St. Louis, and is a member also of the 
firm of Parker, Russell & Co., manufacturers of fire brick, gas retorts, etc. This is his first 
venture into manufactures of iron. Secretary Hermann was formerly in one of the city 
offices. lie has been with this company since 1SS4. 

The Duggan- Parker Works cover the whole ground from Gratiot to Papin streets, on 
Eleventh and Twelfth streets. Here 165 men are employed in the manufacture of shelf and 
heavy hardware and malleable iron. The best markets for these products are foumi in the 
Northwest, West and Southwest. Mr. Duggan's patent ball-valve tuyere iron, used by 
blacksmiths (to regulate the blast from bellows to forge), is a specialty of this establishment. 
They are fast coming into general use all over the country. Finish and quality is the princi- 
pal characteristic of the output from this establishment, in which respect it is in strong con- 
trast with those that turn out penitentiary goods. 



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THORN & FULLERTON. 

Stair Builders: 1322 Xorth Fourteenth Street. 

I 

The heaviest firm engaged in stair building in 
St. Louis is the one which is the subject of this 
sketch. From fifty to one hundred hands are em- 
ployed by it, as the season is Ijrisk or the reverse, 
and a trade reaching as far south as Texas and 
Mexico is supplied by it. The fine work in the 
Exposition building ^^■as done by it. 

The house has been doing business here since 
1868, Mr. Thorn having founded it in thatyear. 
He is himself an experienceil mechanic. Mr. Ful- 
lerton has been connected \\ith some of the largest 
mercantile houses in Philadelphia and Chicago, and 
is also an expert in his present calling, having 
served an apprenticeship at it with Miller & Seck- 
man, formerly the most prominent as well as suc- 
cessful stair builders of St. Louis (but now retired). 
So the firm possesses the largest practical experience, 
in addition to such other qualifications for the suc- 
cessful conduct of business as ample resources and 
large enterprise. The accompanying cut presents 
an illustration of the stair-work built by the firm. 
M Their work is not only highly ornate, but presents 
= the advantage of durability. Nothing but well- 
^ seasoned lumber is used by this firm. 

THE EVERS STOVE MANUFACTURING CO. 

J. H. Evers, President : II. Lentz, Vice-President ; H. Evers, Secretarj'. Sycamore Stoves. Office and 
Salesrooms, 1S21 to 1S31 N. Second Street. 

It is related of a distinguished writer on domestic economy, that he once indulged in an 
abnormally lengthy disquisition upon kitchen chemistry without so much as mentioning the 
stove as essential in practice of the culinary art. Far be it from us to thus evidence mental 
aberration. The "Sycamore Stove," which is the specialty of the Evers Stove Manufact- 
uring Company, is everywhere recognized as an household necessity. It cannot be ignored, 
any more than the passer-by can fail to observe the extensive buildings of the company, 
covering so many numbers on North Second street, and occupying a lot 270x190 feet. 
Originally (1873) the St. Louis Stove Works, the establishment was incorporated in 1S82, 
with a capital stock of $80,000. J. H. Evers, the President, is also Vice-President of the 
Northwestern Savings Bank, and in the conduct of the affairs of the company is assisted by 
H. Lentz, Vice-President, and H. Evers, Secretary. The company has not only a large city 
trade, but the Sycamore stove is sold, known and appreciated throughout Missouri, Illinois, 
Kansas and Texas. In its luaiuifacture in St. Louis upwards of fifty hands are constantly 
employed, and the volume of trade is continually augmenting. 

A. J. CHILD. 

General Purchasing Agent and Commission Merchant: 209 Market Street. 

Mr. A. J. Child, of No. 209 ^larket Street, has been nine years in the line of business 
described above, which argues a well settled and substantial patronage. He fills orders at 
wholesale prices, receives consignments and obtains the highest market price for grain, wool, 
hides, furs, and. all kinds of country and farming produce, making remittances promptly and 
performing all commission services accurately and to advantage. 

He istlie leading wool commission merchant of St. Louis. He is also agent for the Acme 
reapers and mowers, plows, Indiana cultivators, buggies and spring wagons, Jones' (Bing- 
hamton, N. V. ) scales, sewing machines, and a general line of farming implements, ferti- 
lizers and fence wire. His trade is mostly the commission line however, and is largely with 
the interior of this State (Missouri), and with the South and Southwest. These various en- 
terprises, and particularly the Western agency for Jones' scales, and Wilsons' patent grind- 
ing mills (for corn bone, shells, etc.), make his yearly transactions notable for their volume, 
and entitle liis concern to a place among the representative houses of St. Louis. 



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THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 



B. NUGENT & BRO. j 

Jobbers and Retailers cf American and Foreign Dry Goods: S15 North Fitth Street; New York | 

Ofiice, 51 Leonard Street. j 

This is a house that confines itself to the direct line of dry goods, handling nothing out- ' , 
side, as many other houses here do — for instance, boots and shoes, glass ware, etc. — and ' 
with its capital, resources and patronage, it finds a sufficient field without such ventures. 




The establishment was first opened in 1873, by B. Nugent, Mr. D. C. Nugent acquirmg his 
interest about four years ago. The senior principal in the house had, jiriur to his start here, 
been in business in Illinois, and was with some of the larger New York and Chicago houses. 
Although he came here a total stranger, these connections and experiences gave him no m- 
considerable advantage over longer established but less enterprising competitors. 

This house has, besides a first-rate retail trade, a very heavy patronage by order, com- 
ing to it from Texas, Arkansas, Illinois, Missouri, and, in fact, all the points dependent on St. 
Louis for supplies. The number of employes— 225— and their weekly wages— $2,000— indi- 
cate what great volume of trade the house has. The house has in New York an ofTice and 



THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 165 

purchasing agency. This is in charge of an employe of Nugent & Brc, and is used as head- 
quarters for the heads of departments who purchase for the house. Taken altogether this 
establishment must be ranked with the best and largest dry goods houses of the country. It 
certainly has no superior in the West in all those matters that go to make up a first-class 
house, and is considered throughout the interior to be a most satisfactory concern to trade 
with. 

THE ANCHOR MILLING CO. 

Geo. D. Capen, President; John Granule, Vice-President and Manager; E. S. Clauss, Secretary; 

Manufacturers of tiie -'Anchor," " Purity," " Crangle's Imperial," and other choice brands : 

Twenty-first and Randolph Streets. 

Covering, as they do, nearly a square of ground, employing 75 men, and having a 
capacity of 2,000 barrels a day, these fine new mills (they are but four years in operation) 
must be reckoned as fairly to be compared with the best establishment of the kind in this 
country. When to this is added the fact that its trade is foreign as well as domestic, and 
that it is one of the largest exporters of flour from this market, it must be apparent that it 
has something more than a mere claim to recognition as a representative industrial institution. 
The officers of this corporation are well experienced in their different departments. Presi- 
dent Capen has lived here about all his life. He has been an insurance man for years, and 
is still in that avocation. Manager Crangle has had a life-long experience in the milling 
trade. He formerly ran the Yaeger Mills. Secretary Clauss has lived here twenty-odd 
years, and has been connected with mills for over one-half that time. He, too, was with the 
Yaeger Milling Company. 

Flour is shipped by this concern to all parts of Europe, and more particularly to the 
British ports. All the principals in the management have stock in the Exposition Company 
and memberships in the Exchange. It is a complete establishment. 

B. HERDER. 

Bookseller, Publisher and Importer, Catholic Books, Church Ornaments and Church Vestments; 
17 South Broadway, St. Louis; alsoat Freiburg, Baden, Strasburg and Munich. 

Perhaps the oldest business house in St. Louis is that of B. Herder, which was estab- 
lished at the beginning of the present century in Freiburg, Baden. That is still the location 
of the parent house and the personal headquarters of Mr. Herder. But he has two other 
European houses — one established in Strasburg in 1866, the other in Munich in 1873 — 
which latter was also the date of the establishment of the American branch house in St. 
Louis. 

The resident managing partner here is Mr. Joseph Gummersbach, and he owns the 
building occupied by the house, 17 South Broadway, which is 26x120 feet, and contains four 
stories and basement, all occupied by the books and wares of the house. The establish- 
ment deals very extensively in imported and American Catholic books, together with such 
church goods as ornaments and vestments in great variety. They are generally high-class 
and expensive works, but are sold very largely in the West and throughout the country, to 
the amount of $150,000 a year and upwards. Salesmen are sent out twice annually — Spring 
and Fall — and the house has twelve employes. Mr. Gummersbach is an industrious and 
energetic business man, and under his management the trade of the house constantly 
increases. 

F. SCHWARTZ & BRO. 

General Commission Merchants: 1601 to 1605 Broadway. 

From 1865 to 1880, Mr. F. Schwartz conducted this concern alone. In the latter year, 
Mr. H. Schwartz acquired his interest. They do a general commission business, making a 
specialty of grain and flour, having a splendid sale for their "Good Luck" (Horse Shoe) 
brand of flour. The grain is received by them on consignment from the river and railroads, 
and they sell direct from these points. Their elevator and storehouse here is for grain, etc., 
received from a large farming patronage that they have with the country immediately sur- 
rounding this — within a radius of twenty miles or so. Their annual business can not be 
less than one million and a half. 

The Schwartz Bros, are among the most active operators here. Their patronage, it will 
be seen from the foregoing account, is one personal to them. Commission services entrusted 
to this house will be found to be accurately and promptly attended to. 



l66 THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 

THE JOSEPH SCHNAIDER BREWING CO. 

Mrs. Joseph Schnaider, President; Joseph M. Schnaider, Vice-President ; A. H. Merrill, Secretary 
and Treasurer; Fritz Wahl, Manager; 2000 Chouteau Avenue. 

One of the most popular resorts in the Laiayette Park district is the gardens belonging 
to the Joseph Schnaider Brewing Company. The groimds are 350 feet front on Chouteau 
Avenue by 577 on Mississippi Avenue. Besides the block thus enclosed, the malt house 
and stables belonging to the company occupy another. 

Like most of the large industrial establishments of the city, the Schnaider brewery was 
first established in a very small way. It is now thirty years since the modest venture was 
made by Joseph Schnaider, at Second and Elm streets. The stock company was incorpo- 
rated in 1879. Mr. Schnaider died in 1881, but his widow still retains his interest in the 
establishment. Mr. Joseph M. Schnaider, a son, who is a practical brewer, is Vice-Presi- 
dent of the corporation. Mr. Merrill, Secretary and Treasurer, came to this city from 
Canada about two years ago to engage with this company. Mr. Wahl, the Superintendent, 
is a thirty-year resident of the city, who has been in the brewery business about all his life. 

Schnaider's is one of the most complete breweries in the city. It employs eighty men. 
It has natural cellars for cooling beer, and a natural spring, the water from which answers 
all purposes. A bottling establishment and malt house are connected with the main concern. 
The garden, one of the handsomest and roomiest in the city, is now devoted to the higher 
class of entertainments, a season of comic opera has but just been begun. 

JOHN M. SELLERS. 

Manufacturer of Fire and Water Proof Gravel and Composition Roofs and Roofing Materials; Estab- 
lished iSSo : Factory at 613 Chouteau Avenue: Office, Southeast Corner of Fourth and 

Market Streets. 

To the building interests of St. Louis, alluded to in an earlier part of this work, few 
have contributed more largely than John M. Sellers, who largely manufactures roofing ma- 
terials at his extensive factory, 613 Chouteau avenue; and in putting on his very superior fire 
and water proof gravel and composition roofs employs about nine or ten gangs, or sixty men 
in all 

Mr. Sellers has been so engaged since 1850. and his business is very extensive through- 
out the city, the State and the Northwest. Among the large buildings he has roofed in the 
city within the last twenty years, are the new Olympic Theatre, St. James Hotel, Peper's 
Tobacco warehouse. Crow, Hargadine & Co.'s, which is illustrated in another part of this 
work; the Anheuser-Busch, Wm. J. Lemp, Schnaider's, Winkelmeyers, Chas. G. Stifcl's, 
and other leading and extensive breweries of the city. The roofing material is very highly 
commended by architects and builders, and besides being highly ornamental has the prac- 
tical advantage of being fire and water proof. 

CURTIS & CO. MANUFACTURING COMPANY. 

Oscar Bradford, President; Henry S. Turner, Vice-President; John Stuart, Secretary; Manufacturers 

of and Dealers in Engines, P.oilers, Saw Mills, Gang Edgers, Lath and Felloe Machines, 

Planing Mill and Stave Machinery, Circular Saws and Mill Supplies of ever}' 

description ; 817 and 819 North Second Street. 

This concern has transactions rising $500,000 a year. It has an authorized and paid up 
capital of $50,000, and a surplus (November, 1884) of $76,328.68. These figures are not 
surprising when it is learned that the establishment was founded upward of thirty years ago, 
and that it has been in continuous operation, without a break, ever since. Prior to 1876, 
which is the year of its incorporation, it was run under the firm name of Curtis & Co., and 
although the management has long since passed into other hands, that time honored desig- 
nation is still retained in the company's title. 

This house has two factories in St. Louis, and a branch house in Chicago. The work 
at Ninth and Monroe streets, in this city, are for the manufacture of saws. The factor. 
Second and Wright streets is for the making of wood-working machinery. These two 
tablishments employ 70 to 75 men. The pay-roll for them exceeds $1,000 a week. L 
sides these men 18 others are engaged as salesmen, accountants, etc. 

The Chicago house is established for the accommodation of the Northwestern trade 
the house. The specialties of manufacture are saw mill goods, all such tools and machiin 
as are used by lumbermen, loggers, and mill men. The foregoing account illustrates beti, 
than any diffuse puffery the strength, standing and resources of this house, and the extra- 
ordinary accommodation it has to offer to patrons. 



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THE DOWNTON MANUFACTURING CO. 

R. L. Downton, President : Tom Miller, Jr., Secretary; Mill Builders and Furnishers : 503 Chamber 

of Commerce building. 

When first established here, in 1873, this concern was known as Downton's Middlings 
Purifier Company. The house is now extensively engaged in mill building and remodeling. 
The Geo. Bain & Co. mill and the Geo. P. Plant company's mill here were built by it, 

and the following have been 
remodeled by it, complete 
roller systems being sub- 
stituted for stones : 

Cole Bros. 'mill, Chester, 
Ills.; Sawyer &McCracken's 
mill, Nashville, Ills.; C. P. 
Chapman & Co.'s, Pittsfield, 
111. ; the Joseph & Anderson 
mill, Montgomery, Ala.; D. 
L. Wing & Co.'s, Litchfield, 
Ills.; J. F. Antes & Co.'s, 
Sedalia, Mo.; J. F. Schweg- 
man & Co.'s, Washington, 
Mo.; also building a 150- 
barrel mill for the Crowder 
Milling Co. at Edwardsville, 
III. 

Middlings Purifiers and 
chilled iron rollers are the 
specialties of the Downton 
: company. The rolls are 
;•;:, made at Wilmington, Del., 
:;y| the other machinery here. 
Mr. Dgwnton is an English- 
man, who has lived here 
however for many years, and 
who is the inventor of im- 
provements to flouring ma- 
chinery. Secretary Miller 
has lived in St. Louis some 
twenty-nine years, and has 
been in mill building and machinery for some twelve years. 

The Downton company contracts to build roller flour mills with guaranteed results of 
flour, percentages and yields, furnishing plans and specifications therefor. It also builds 
and furnishes distilleries with its special rolls. 

The St. Louis Roller Repair Company, a corporation with the following officers, occu- 
pies offices in the Chamber of Commerce building adjoining the Downton company: Wm. T. 
Porter, President, Wilmington, Del.; J. Morton Poole, Jr., Vice-President, same jilace; 
Tom Miller, Jr., Secretary and Treasurer, St. Louis; Directors, Wm. T. Porter, R. L. 
Downton, J. Morton Poole, Jr., Tom Miller, Jr. This company was organized January 2nd, 
1883. In a circular issued by it, the milling trade is informed that it has erected and fitted 
up at Walnut and Twenty-first street, St. Louis, Mo., extensive works, with the celebrated 
J. Morton Poole Co.'s grinding and corrugating machinery, has a full force of skilled work- 
men from their shops at Wilmington, Del., and is now prepared to re-grind and re-corrugate 
chilled iron rolls, of all makes and descriptions, with any form or number of_ corrugations 
desired. Parties sending rolls to be re-ground or re-cut will oblige by marking each box, 
who the rolls are from, and giving plainest possible directions what they wish done to the 
rolls; also to state size of rolls, what corrugations they now have, and what it is desired to 
have when re-cut. and also whether the machine to which the rolls belong is right or left 
hand. 

The extensive plant of machinery put in by the St. Louis Roller Co. enables it to re- 
grind rolls made of porcelain, steel or any other material. It has machinery that can grind 
down to the fifty-thousandth part of an inch. 




THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 169 

THE DAY RUBBER CO. 

A. W. Day, President and Treasurer; E. B. Wilder, Secretary ; Wholesale and Relail Rubber Goods : 

615 North Fourth Street. 

Day Bros. & Co. began business about three years ago. They incorporated in May 
last. This house is agent for the Cleveland Rubber Co.'s belting, hose and packing; the New 
Jersey Rubber Shoe Co.; the Standard Oiled Clothing Co.; the Boston Rubber Co.'s carriage 
cloths, and other standard goods. It has a first-rate Western and Southwestern trade, par- 
ticularly in such specialties as belting, hose and packing, rubber boots and shoes, druggists' 
rubber sundries, etc., some of which are of European importation. 

Messrs. Day & Wilder, the principals in this company, came here from Hartford to en- 
gage in this business. Both are experienced in it and are much esteemed by the trade for 
businesslike qualifications. 

BERRY BROTHERS. 

Manufacturers of Varnishes, Detroit, Mich.; St. Louis Branch, E. P. Davenport, Manag^er; 402 North 

Second Street, 

One striking feature of a review of the industries of St. Louis, is the number of branch 
houses representing distant manufactories, that are located here. The success of these ven- 
tures confirms the general opinions expressed of this city as a distributing center, and proves 
that the principals in those concerns estimate this section highly as a market for their wares. 

Berry Brothers are the greatest manufacturers of varnish in the world. They began first 
in Detroit in exceedingly modest fashion, and have progressed from that small start until they 
have been compelled to establish agencies in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, 
Chicago, Cincinnati, Rochester (N. Y.), and here in St. Louis, to satisfy the demand for 
their superior products. They are the originators of the hard oil finish, the only genuine 
preparation for pianos, organs, desks, mouldings, and furniture generally. Owing to the 
reputation it has acquired, many imitations of it have been marketed, but they have only 
assisted the sale of the genuine product. Samples of wood finished with this preparation 
will be forwarded on application. 

Before taking charge of the branch here. Manager Davenport was himself a varnish 
manufacturer, and has special qualifications for the trade. He was formerly in this same line 
at Cincinnati. The illustration on the opposite page shows the extent and style of the Detroit 
works of this firm. 

CAMPBELL, LANCASTER & CO. 

Live Stock Commission Merchants; Union Stock Yards, Chicago; Kansas City Stock Yards, and 
National Stock Yards, East St. Louis. 

The three offices of this firm are managed by the partners resident at the three points 
where business is transacted by it: thus, at Chicago, Jas. H. Campbell; St. Louis, G. Lan- 
caster, Josiah Hale and D. L. Campbell; Kansas City, G. W. Campbell and Joseph Lan- 
caster. With such a representation, consignors to the firm notifying it by mail or wire get 
the advantage of through rates if the cattle remain unsold at either market. 

The St. Louis house has been doing business for some ten years, the Kansas City 
branch four years, and the Chicago office since the Fall of '84. This has been one of the 
leading houses here since its foundation. A business of from $12,000,000 to $20,000,000 
a year is done in these offices. The whole Western and Southwestern country furnishes 
patrons for the firm. The business of the St. Louis house is divided as follows: Mr. Hale, 
cattle and sheep; Mr. D. L. Campbell, hogs; Mr. G. Lancaster, the office business. 

F. HALLIDAY & CO. 

Safes, Time Locks and Vault Doors: 219 Pine Street. 
Established in 1874, this house has, in the meantime, acquired a trade with patrons in 
nearly all of the States to the West and Southwest of this point, and is doing a particularly 
prosperous business with Arkansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Texas. 

Testimonials regarding the merits of safes furnished by Halliday & Company have been 
received from the Southern Hotel proprietors, and from some of the largest business houses 
of this vicinity, showing that the fiercest fires have only verified the statements made by the 
firm. These safes are those of the Cincinnati Lock Company. Halliday & Co. also sell the 
, vault doors of the same company, and the Dalton Time Lock made by the Consolidated Time 
Lock Company. 



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THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 



THE SOUTHERN HOTEL. 

Henry C. Lewis, Manager ; Fourth, Filth, Walnut and Elm Streets. 
The " Southern," the finest hotel in St. Louis, and covering larger space than any other 
in the West, is owned by a stock company of which W. R. Allen is President; George W. 
Allen, Vice-President; J. W. Wallace, Secretary and Treasurer; W " t^^-'-^^— -^1 



R. 




Donaldson and 
Wm. Welker, 
Directors. The 
present building, 
which succeeded 
tlie historic 
Southern, that 
was destroyed by 
fire in 1877, was 
erected in 1880- 
'81 by the late 
Plon. Thomas 
Allen, who died 
while occupying 
aseatin congress, 
and whose bust 
adorns one of the 
corridors of the 
hotel. In all the 
features necess- 
ary to constitute 

a first-class house, the Southern is not surpassed anywhere. The massive structure occupies 
the block bounded by Walnut and Elm streets with a frontage of 226 feet, and by Fouith and 
Filth streets with a frontage of 275 feet. It is six stories in height with a commodious 
basement. In the re-erection of the building there was lavish expenditure of money and 
resort to every incombustible material to render it fire-proof. Railroad iron was used for 
ioistin-; the interior walls formed of massive brick, and the partition walls of gypsum, sand, 
cement, and pulverized coke, no wood being used. So constructed, and its four stairways, 
running from top to bottom, being of iron, the S^DUthern has been pronounced by most ex- 
perienced builders and fire insurance inspectors the most_ thoroughly hje-proof hotel 1 the 
world. In that confident belief, the proprietors carry no msurance on the bmldmg or turni- 
ture. valued at about $2,000,000. . , • 1 ■ 

Elegantly furnished throughout, the hotel contains all the latest improvements, inclusive 
of exten'sive machinery for elevators and for furnishing electric light. Ihe grand stairway ,s 
one of the finest in the country, and an artistically designed terrace garden over the dining 
hall and laid out in paths and 'promenades, is another notable feature. The house con ains 
upwards of five hundred rooms, and can comfortably accommodate twelve hundred guests. 

^ Since its formal re-opening in May, 1881, in which cereniony the Governor of thej,tate, 
Municipal authorities and others of distinction shared, the Southern has enioyed uninter- 
rupted and unparalleled prosperity, and especially so during the past two years and mo. e un- 
der the direction of Manager Lewis, formerly of the Windsor, New \ork. Like the old 
Southern, of which the Grand Duke Alexis, of Russia, was a guest, its sticcessor entertains a 
great ma ority of European tourists. Its extensive accommodations efficient nianagenent 
fnd unrivalled cuisine make it a great favorite with travelers in general, ^nd he la ger com- 
mercial bodies and conventions visiting St. Louis; in fact it is the recogmzed «" .^ 0^^°"- 
ventions, having ample conveniences in the way of committee rooms, etc. Gen- Po.hro Uiaz, 
President of Mexico, selected the Southern as his headquarters when visiting St. Louis, the 
great Cotton Convention awarded it similar recognition, and the Cattlemen s National Con- 
vention, shortly to re-assemble here, will again select this hotel as headquarters. 

O. p. HEDGES & CO. 

Dealers in and Agents for the Sale of Missouri and Arkansas Lands ; 

Olive Street, St. Louis, Mo. 

Messrs O. P. Hedges & Co. have for sometime held the distinction of being the most 
conspicuous firm in their line. They have on their books 50,000,000 acres of land that are 
for sale. This includes one tract of 4,000,000 acres, and one of 10,000,000 acres. It 1. 
acknowledged that this firm have reduced their business to a perfect system; that their plats 
deS^fonltetc, of ranches, f^ms and lands are got up in better and more satisfacto,> 



Large Tracts a Specialty: 91c 



THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 171 



shape than by any other establishment encrae-ed in the hn«inp== ^h^ c u 

too, both at home anH nhvna,! ., ^'" ':"^^s^*^ >" tne busmess. The firm has connections 

corespondents in New Yo^-k and Tnnf'' '' g^eat advantages over competing dealers. Its 
here for about six years. Mr HedUs hns Zed ?n S T . "" u^' """^ ^°'"- ^"^'"^=^s 

BURRELL, COMSTOCK & CO. 

Furniture : 402 and 404 North Fourth Street. 

th Pdncfpah Thi" h" h"- '■ ''• ^""""' ^- ^- ^"'"^^^^^ ^"d ^^' ^^- B'^y- are 

''Jo' o A D Se ""Tr %V'' establishment from 1866, when Mr. Burrell was the 
In 1860 S H Bu''Tk;^ ^°- ^^^' same year Comstock & Haywood engaged in business 

rar^t'pt'*'^^^^""^^^^^ ^"^ separate houses, under thj^-luin JtTe^hL^^Trse 

patro^s^ooTn'st'tL^l^ar^TsUnfas" nJ V^l "^"/^^ ^"? Southwestern country. It has 
furniture house lisLLomsaTd Ts ^o Icino ,'f ^l^rJ^^'^y- ^t is the largest retail 
employes, none of whom however ar^frnv^r ^' ^^ ''' competitors. It has about 40 

circ'ul/r aU other alerd^inrmld^rp^lToLTls^^^^^^^^^ 'h^'^k'""^" "^'^ ^^ 

Bleyer ac.u.ed ^^^^r^l^l^i^^^!- .tf^o":^^""'"^ '^^ "^^-•-^- ^^^ 

HENRY McCABE. 

Manufacturer of Plug, Chewing and Twist Tobaccos : 707 North Second Street. 

The proprietor of the factory at 707 North Second Street was raised in St. Louis and 

he dfta ir:f IZ'I 1 ^^'^-^ --"^--re since .867, is thoroughly conversant: Uh 

less H s mercant"le"r'' • • '°"^ '^ '''''' ^^ apprenticeship at the marble busi- 

Mr M.r K " I experience smce has not been meager. 

in high favor. HL^stablishmlt hS sh 7ed^ ^^^^^ particularly the latter, are 

yearr, and is firmly grrntdTl g^od tit andtf ^n^trrc^^^^^ °^ ''' "^^^'^* ^^ ^^""* 

ST. LOUIS MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE CO 

John G. Haas. President; G. H^EiO.cht Vice- .resident; John J. SuUer. Secretary; Edwlrd Herzo,. 
Assistant Secretary: 622 Locust Street. 
This is a local and mutual company, and does business only in St. Louis and the State 
I was organized in X851 by several of our leading business'men, and reorgani ed ^Ir 

time reached nearly $100^000. " ^ $26,207.67, while its cash income during the same 



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THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 



THE LACLEDE FIRE BRICK MANUFACTURING CO. 

las. Green. President; J. H. Green, Vice-President; G. R. Blackford, Secretary ; Manufacturers of Gas 

Retorts, Fire Bricks. Sewer Pipe, Terra Cotta Ware, etc. : Works at Cheltenhan,, 

Mo. Pac. & S. F. Ry.; Office, 901 Pine Street. 

Inrnovements just added by this company to its Cheltenham works make them the 

Hr-o.t as well as oldest in this vicinity. The business now conducted by the Laclede 

company was first established in a small way, becoming the field for it, by Ilambleton 




& Green the forerunners of this establishment. In 1854 the works were in North St. 
& Oreen, tne 'oierui Cheltenham in 1865, and the stock company was incor- 

than that ot ^"7 ^'"^ ; f Ohj^ ,^hose trade requires two pipe machnies to be 

^'''' '"■ tTn Iv Th^ total annual output of the manufactured wares of this company is un- 
run constantly J^ fJ'^^^/^^'.^^'^They^re annually increasing the variety of the.r products, 

endo.se It as the best noncon^^^ ^^.^^^ ^^^ .^^ ^^ any other for 

t:^^^:::^ ^tl^S^^'TSrtrTabiLl^lack color, thoroughly vltnfied, and 
almost indestructible by ajj^yord.^^^^^^ ^.^^^^^ ^^^^ the principal part of 

V l-f'^^He JaTirth?furU ebuildfng Hne at^the^ of his venture with Hambleton 

and c:;tract1n7for ^l ereXn ot furnaces is still a large part of the business of this vast 
"'"%';« indication of the manner in which he is identified with the solid interests of this 



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Glass Co. of Crystal City, Mo., and a member of both the Merchants and Mechanics Ex- 
changes. 

The interests of the Laclede's customers are always protected by the lowest freight con- 
tracts on all shipments by rail or river. Cars are loaded at the Cheltenham factoriet for all 
railroad points through to destinaton without re-shipment. The wares of the company were 
exhibite.l at the World s Exposition, New Orleans, and received awards of four first pre- 
miums in all, namely, for best fire clay gas retorts, for best fire brick, for best terra-metallic 
paving brick, for best culvert and sewer pipe. 

THE KENDALL-BAYLE CRACKER CO. 

Geo. J. Kendall, President; A. L. Daniels, Vice-President; Geo. A. Bayle, Secretary: Fourth and 

Chouteau Avenue. 

In the year 1S48, H. N. Kendall, the pioneer steam cracker 
baker of the West, located and built the first important Western 
steam bakery in St. Louis, on the corner of Sixth and Pine streets, 
since which time this principality of the Mississippi Valley has 
never lost its prestige as the center and metropolis of this line of 
business, gained by the uniformly excellent line of goods this 
house inaugurated and always maintained. 

In 1874, Mr. II. N. Kendall closed, by death, a long and 
busy life, and has been succeeded through other changes by the 
present company. The company's factory, five stories'' in height, 
on the corner of Fourth Street and Chouteau Avenue and Broad- 
I way, thus fronting on three thoroughfares, occupies a most com- 
manding site, and is the landmark of that portion of the city. 
Within its walls, by means of the most approved machinery and 
appliances, seventy-five employes daily transform 200 barrels of 
flour and other materials into numberless varieties of delicious 
crackers and biscuits, which find their way, on direct orders to 
this company, into twenty-two States and Territories of this coun- 
try, not counting exports. 

Their trade has reached such proportions that they have purchased a second factory, 
Nos. 711 and 713 North Second street, which will more than double their present enormous 
capacity, and which is in operation at the time of this reading. 

MOSER'S HOTEL. 

Leo. Moser, Proprietor: S07, S09 and Sii Pine Street. 

Mr. Leo. Moser has been catering for the public since his childhood. He directed for 
many years the Lindell's cuisine, was a steward on the Mississippi boats, and for six or seven 
years before opening the " Moser" was proprietor of the Silver Moon restaurant at Seventh 
and Pine streets. 

The Moser, one of the most popular hostelries in the West, is a new house, having 
been constructed especially for and opened by Mr. Moser, September loth, 1SS3. It has 
100 rooms and can accommodate 300 guests. It is run on the European plan, its res- 
taurant, the new Silver Moon, being regarded as the best in the city. A lunch counter 
has recently been fitted up also for the convenience of those who do not desire to dine in 
the middle of the day. 

The Moser is a model house. Its accommodations are all first-class, and the air of neat- 
ness which characterizes every part of it is particularly striking. Transients will find it not 
only the most reasonable, but, without exaggeration, the best hotel here. It is convenient, 
central and handsome. 

GOLSAN, COIT & CO. 

Commission Merchants : 213 and 214 Chamber of Commerce Building. 
R. W. Golsan and A. B. Coit have been in the general commission business here for 
about ten years, beginning as R. W. Golsan & Co. about that length of time ago. Both 
gentlemen are old residents, Mr. Golsan having about twelve years experience of this 
market, and Mr. Coit about six years in it. Both gentlemen are prominent in the Exchange, 
and are pretty well known also through their dealings with New York, Chicago and Toledo. 
They deal in options on commission for grain, cotton, lard, pork and stocks, and have a 
first-rate patronage. 



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THE MORAN BOLT AND NUT MANUFACTURING CO. 

M. Moran President; J. Moraii, Secretary : W. E. Moran, Treasurer; Manufacturers of Gimlet Point 

Coach and Lag Screws, Machine, Key, Car and Bridge Bolts, Nuts, Washers, Rivets, etc. : 

Main and Florida Streets. 

The stock of this company is all held by the brothers M. 
and W. E. Moran, and they give to the management of its con- 
cerns their personal and undivided attention. The company 
was incorporated in iSSi. Its authorized capital is $60,000, a 
sum significant of tlie extent of their enterprise. Fifty men are 
employed by it. The factory and works, now located in one 
spot for twelve years, cover an area of 140 feet square. 

The business was originally founded by \Vm. Moran, father 
of the brothers, in 1S50. Its age is a guarantee that its business 
conduct has been irreproachable. Its manufactures are standard 
in all parts of the West and South, occasional shipments East- 
ward in competition with the manufacturers of that section suffering nothing 
by comparison with the best products there marketed. The Moran Bolt 
Works are an important feature of the industrial record of the times, and are 
entitled to the most favorable mention. Indeed, they have a very important 
bearing, considered in connection with the iron manufacturing industries of the 
great Mississippi Valley; and the deserved prosperity of such establishments 
is not only a triumph of the enterprising proprietors, but promotes the welfare 
ial interests of the entire West. 





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THE RIVERSIDE PRINTING HOUSE. 

N. T. Gray, Proprietor: 302 North Main Street. 

When it was first established, in 1855, this house was known as Edwards' Directory 
Office. Edwards was succeeded about the year 1S68 by Capt. L. H. Aldrich, who conducted 
the place as a directory and general printing office. The Christian Publishing Co. followed 
Aldrich's management, and Dowling & Gray were the successors to that concern. This was 
in 1875. Six months later Mr. N, T. Gray acquired sole possession, and except for a short 
period, when Mr. H. C. Spring — now of the Spring Printing Co. — was with him, has con- 
ducted its affairs alone. 

Mr. Gray was, prior to his venture here, one of the proprietors of the Mobile Tribune. 
A native of Oswego, New York, he commenced at the printing trade when but twelve years 
old. His experience and training, therefore, amply qualify him for the management of an 
extensive printing house. Nine magnificent presses are running in this establishment, and 
all the latest mechanical accessories are added so soon as they appear. The annual business 
transactions with the city and surrounding country, principally with the South and South- 
west, are fully $100,000. The specialties of this house are blank books and catalogues, as 
well as printing in all its branches. Six different catalogues are being now published by 
this house. This is a first-class house in every essential particular, and is one that performs 
its work thoroughly, satisfactorily and well. 

DAVID HUMPHREYS & BRO. 

General Commission Merchants, with Fruit and Vegetables a Specialty: 712 Nortli Third Street, 

(Formerly Broadway.) 

The senior principal in this house, Mr. David Humphreys, has had a most eventful his- 
tory. He was a soldier of the Mexican war, a miner and merchandiser of the early days in 
California, a planter in Missouri before the war, and lost during the hostilities his whole pos- 
sessions, including thirty-four slaves. Compelled by adverse circumstances to undertake 
trade again, from that time on he followed a mercantile career. At different times thereafter 
he was doing business as a merchant at Jefferson, at Pleasant Hill, (Mo.), and on the line 
of the Atchison road in Colorado, had a son of Provisional Gov. Gamble for a partner at 
Pleasant Hill, and finally, after many and varied experiences, settled here in the produce 
line about the year 1872. 

It seems unnecessary to say here that the subject of this sketch is an authority upon trade 
matters, especially those connected with his own avocation. Speaking of the expansion of 
this section and of the rapid develo]uiient of his employment in ]iarticular, Mr. Humphreys 
recalls the fact that when he first settled here, a merchant who received a car load of early 



THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 1/5 

produce was regarded as displaying great speed and spirit. Now the movements are by train 
loads, and the business, for such houses as his, is chiefly in the distribution of crops and 
their transfer from the point of production to the point of consumption. If one section has 
a good crop and there is scarcity in another, it is the business of a produce dealer, that is to 
say one of the modern sort, to send out his buyers so as to purchase for those who make 
demand for what has been raised. A merchant now finds greater scope for his energies. 
Thus his house receives consignments from points so far distant as the fruit growing regions 
of California, and in the contrary direction so far East as Boston, and even into Canada. 
Later the situation may be reversed, and instead of consignments the business may be in 
shipments to the very same points. 

About three years ago, Mr. John D. Humphreys, who is much the junior of his brother, 
acquired an interest in this house, which having a Chicago branch required an assistant in 
the management. Besides that estalishment, the house runs a Kraut factory and a city branch 
on Franklin avenue. This much space is devoted to the affairs of this house because it is a 
truly representative one. As will be seen, Mr. Humphreys, sr., is a man for affairs of 
breadth, and he is ably assisted in the transactions of the concern by his brother John D. 
These gentlemen are notable figures in this market, and their house is regarded as staunch 
and sound by all the trade; so much so indeed, that they influence many operations of the 
market in which they have no direct interest. 

MEYER, BANNERMAN & CO. 

Manufacturers of Saddlery, Saddlery Hardware, Leather, etc.: 612, 614, 616 North Second Street; 
Factory, 418 North Commercial Street. 

The gentlemen of this firm came from the South about twenty years ago for the purpose 
of changing their field of operations. Immediately after their establishment in St. Louis, 
their house, by the breadth and character of its operations, assumed position with the man- 
ufacturing concerns of first rank in this vicinity. This is the principal house of its line now 
supplying the Southern and Southwestern country. Over 160 employes are in its service, 
and transactions exceeding $600,000 are the estimate of its annual business. 

Speaking of the trade lately, Mr. Meyer said: " This is a business that expands much 
slower than some other lines; for instance, the grocery or dry goods lines, because it de- 
pends on the prosperity of a very different class of customers — small manufacturers and the 
traders who usually settle on the back streets, and who have themselves a slow growth." 
It will thus be seen that a house like that herein described is, by the very nature of its trade, 
obliged to deal liberally and cleverly with its patrons, and this reputation the house of 
Meyer, Bannerman & Co. has long since acquired. Its wares, too, like its business methods, 
are in all respects first-class. 

AMERICAN ART CO. 

G. M.Ashley, Proprietor; Headquarters for Fine Frames and Works of Art; Northwest Corner of 

Eighth and Pine Streets. 

The proprietor of this palace of art has proven himself a public benefactor in introduc- 
mg into the households of those of moderate means, in the West and Southwest, a variety of 
works of art that erstwhile adorned only the salons of the opulent. 

Publishers have long known that the hitherto high prices of works of art could be re- 
duced materially if a large popular demand could be created for them, and it needed only the 
business sagacity and enterprise of Mr. Ashley to promote that cuhurca taste which should 
create a popular demand for the multiplication of the works of the masters, and thus cheapen 
the same. He has succeeded. Where only a few wealthy patrons of art had fine pictures, 
the situation is now changed, and these evidences of culture adorn the homes of those who 
otherwise would still be fracturing the command against covetousness. The American Art 
Co. adoped the manufacture of frames fitted to supplement the genius of the artist, and now 
throughout Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Texas, Colorado, and even the distant Western Ter- 
ritories, apostles of culture and refinement carry ready framed paintings and fine engravings 
from the studio and emporium of Mr. Ashley, at Eighth an J Pine streets. The proprietor 
had himself some years of experience as a traveling culj' iteur in the ministry of art, and 
employed a number of agents in the same behalf, when he engaged in his project extensively 
about seven years ago. So the business developed from year to year until the ernporium of 
the American Art Co. has become one of the most interesting features of attraction in St. 
Louis, and the manufacturing branch — frame making — is already a large industry. Mr. 
Ashley is from Illinois, and in addition to cultivating a large estate, his father has held judi- 
cial positions in Will County. But the son abandoned the farm and carved out his own bus- 
iness career unaided, yet firmly supported by a faith in the ultimate triumph he has won. 



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THE GLOBE PANORAMA CO. 

"The Siege of Paris;" G. S. Ingram, President: I. R. Krum, Manager and Treasurer; Thom:is E. 
Patterson, Secretary: Washington Avenue and Thirteenth Street. 

Although hardly to be strictly classed with the industries of the city, yet as an enterprise 
of the year 1SS5, and one, too, involving a considerable outlay, the Globe Panorama Co.'s 
" Siege of Paris '' deserves more than a mere passing mention. The Panorama of the Siege 
of Paris now on exhibition at Thirteenth and Washington avenue, is the work of the follow- 
ing distinguished artists: Betsellier, Benton, Le Prince, Bernard, Risier, Grandchanips, 
Brlicconi, Desbrosses, Plonsey, Greux and others. The point of observation is on the heights 
of Chatillon. As an imposing and beautiful pageant it is unrivalled by any other work of the 
kind. ^Vhile in process of construction in France, fidelity to surroundings and historical 
accuracy were kept constantly in mind, and every facility was furnished by the French gov- 
ernment to render it absolutely perfect. 




The building in which this panorama is exhibited was erected especially for the purpose 
to which it is now devoted, in the early part of the year. It is the red octagonal shaped 
structure so much remarked by passers-by. The panorama is a painting in oil, fifty feet 
high and 401 feet in length. It represents a landscape over 100 miles in circumference, in- 
cluding the city of Paris and its Southern environs, and the field of Chatillon, which action 
is faithfully represented by the painting. The picture is the labor of fourteen distinguished 
artists, who were five months completing it, equal to a five years task for one man. The 
picture weighs eight tons; 2,228 square yards of canvas were used in it. 

The company which has erected this building is one permanently located, and owning 
the same sort of enterprise in other large cities. Mr. Krum, the manager here, is from 
Bloomington, 111., where he formerly had large lumber, coal and grain interests. Messrs. 
Ingram and Patterson, President and Secretary respectively of the Globe Company, are from 
Chicago, Mr. Patterson being a heavy real estate operator there, and Mr. Ingram retired 
from active business life. 

"Splendid in prosperity, and rendered dramatically pathetic by the pressure of adver- 
sity, Paris is, under all possible conditions, an interesting study; and nothing which serves 
to illustrate either her glory or her distress ever fails to command attention. 

"Americans, more than any other people, are familiar with Parisian life, manners and 
ideas, and appreciate the scenes of this thrilling'episode in the world's history. This splen- 
did picture will hence address itself to all classes — to the lover of art, the military adept, the 
student of historv, the traveler, the enthusiast who longs to become more familiar with its 



THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 1/7 

scenes, the busy man of science, the overtasked merchant and lawyer — in fact, to the Ameri- 
can people in general, as a very entertaining and valuable artistic and educational study. 

"So, under this iron dome, surroimded by the wall of painted canvas, the interesting 
story of the long drama all comes back, and we live an epoch of history over again in an 
hour, and in coming away we rub our eyes to be fully sure that all we sse or seemed to have 
seen was not a dream." 

I. B. ROSENTHAL & CO. 

Importers, Manufacturers and Jobbers of Millinery Goods: Northeast Corner of Washington Avenue 

and Fifth Street. 

The year 1876 was the first year of this firm's establishment in St. Louis. The princi- 
pals in it are I. B., M. B. and Sig. Rosenthal and S. R. Lipsis. They are also interested in 
the largest millinery house in Chicago, and in the business (Lincoln, Neb.) firm of M. Ack- 
erman & Co. 

Besides the general line of millinery, tl.is house makes a specialty of the manufacture 
and sale of Ostrich feathers, and is well known for that branch particularly. The trade is 
extensive in these lines, taking in about all the States East, West and South. The house has 
fifty employes, of whom twelve are travellers, thus showing the breadth of their patronage. 
It is about the heaviest house in its line here, and is thoroughly equipped in the way of 
capital and resources for a big trade. 

BLOCK, DEAN & CO. 

General Commission Merchants: 417 Chamber of Commerce Building. 

Dodson & Woods founded the business now carried on by Block, Uean & Co. more than 
twenty years ago. When Mr. Dodson died, Wm. Woods & Co. succeeded the original firm, 
and Messrs. Block & Dean in turn succeeded Woods & Co. in 1881. The principal transac- 
tions of the house are in an order trade with the South and Southwest, the receipts being 
from Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri principally. Mr. S. Smith, formerly ot Pritch- 
ard & Smith, operates for the firm on 'Change. He is a broker of some twelve years 
standing. 

Messrs. Block & Dean are old residents of this section. They were in the auction line 
before their present venture, and are regarded as a trustworthy iid reputable firm. The 
house has ample capital and reb urces, and is looked unou aa o».k, of the leading com- 
mission houses here. 

J. W. GARRATT & CO. 

orass Founders ; 202S to 2034 Walnut Street. 

The " Co." of this firm is Mr. J. C. Lullman. The foundry has been run now for about 
six years by Messrs. Garratt & Co. It employs some twelve men now, and will shortly in- 
crease that force when the manufacture of bells is engaged in. Mr. Garratt has had practical 
experience in this line, and it is proposed to make the fine toned church bells a specialty. 

At present the foundry turns out all manner of phosphor bronze castings, railroad engine 
and car bearings, and genuine Babbitt metal. It has sale for these materials so far away as 
California, and does a first-rate Southern trade. 

ST. LOUIS UNION STOCK YARD CO. 

C. C. Maffit. President; Wm. A. Ramsay, Secretary and Treasurer; Don McN. I'ulmer, Superintend- 
ent: Office and Yards, Bremen Avenue, East of Broadway. 

The marvelous growth of the live stock interest in the Southwest during the past 
decade has necessitated the enlargement of terminal facilities. St Louis being the trade cen- 
tre of the great Mississippi Valley, in close connection with the plains, as well as upon the 
direct route to the Atlantic seabord, it was incumbent upon this metropolis to provide ade- 
quate facilities for the handling and transhipment of live stock. One of the most successfuf 
efforts in this direction took the form of organizing and incorporating the St. Louis Union 
Stock Yard Company about nine years since, with a full paid-up capital stock of $325,000. 
Extensive yardage room — in all about thirty acres — was secured upon Bremen avenue, east of 
Broadway, and the necessary buildings were there erected. Despite the trade depressions 
that have occasionally affected other large interests, the company has continued in a career 



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•of prosperity, annually increasing the volume of its^ transactions and its tributary teiritory, 
until its aggregate trade last year comprehended the receipt and handling of, cattle, ICX),647; 
hogs, 398,809; sheep, 108,988; horses and mules, 12,465. This stock chiefly came from 
Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas and a portion of Illinois; but since the famous National Cat- 
tle Growers' Convention in St. Louis last Fall, the territory tributary to this market is 
constantly extending westward. The present executive officers of the company, chosen at 
the annual election last March, are. President, C. C. Maffitt, and Secretary, W. A. Ramsay; 
both energetic business men, and calculated to conduct its affairs with the largest measure 
of success. The company employs of itself about tl.irty men, but the entire force at the 
•extensive yards is upwards of an hundred and fifty. 

WILLIAMSON'S DRUG STORE. 

Dr. E.J.Williamson, Proprietor: Corner of Ninth Street and Franklin Avenue. 

It is very nearly thirty years now since Dr. E. J. Williamson established himself in the 
•drug trade here, at Second and Vine streets. Since that time he has made several changes 
•of location, but for the past nine years has Jjcen at the corner of Ninth and Franklin avenue. 




Dr. Williamson is a wholesaler and manufacturer, and as such has a trade all over the 
"United States. He manufactures Smith's Iron 'iconic. Oriental Chlorine Tooth Wash, Dr. 
Bertier's Cough Balsam, Dr. Bertier's Bills, and Williamson's Mellaroma, a summer drink. 
He handles at wholesale and retail all the standard remedies and drugs, and has also con- 
siderable practice as a physician. Having had experience in the South before coming here, 
his knowledge of the drug trade is not at all limited. 

From his long residence here Dr. Williamson is pretty thoroughly known and esteemed. 
He is connected with numerous social and professional organizations, and is jn-ominent 
■otherwise than as a tradesman, 

JOHN V^. ELWELL & CO. 

<Jeneral Produce Commission Merchants and Dealers in Hides, Furs, Feathers, Butter, Eg^gs and 

Poultry: 325 North Main Street. 

Capt. Elwell, of 325 North Main street, first went into the commission line about the 
•close of the war. He had been a resident of this section for many years before that, and 
was in command of river craft running between here and New Orleans. 

The house at No. 325 North Main is a pretty brisk one. Its country trade is mostly 
<;onfined to the Illinois and Missouri districts, a specialty being made of the purchase and 
fealeon commission of fruit and country produce. Consignments of such goods are solicited 
•by the house. 

Capt. Ehvell is one of the Floor Committee of the Exchange. 



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THE H. GRONE BREWERY CO. 

H. Grone, President: E. Link, Vice-President and Superintendent; A. Reimler, Secretary; Proprietors 
of the Clarlt Avenue Brewery, Clark Avenue, between Twenty-second and Twenty-third Streets.. 

"The great popularity of the Grone Brewery Company's beer," says an account pub- 
lished some time since, " is evidenced by the fact that consumption of it is always up to the 
limit of the brewery's capacity for production. This brewery has a frontage of 325 feet on 
Clark avenue, between Twenty-second and Twenty-third streets, and 100 feet on Eugenia 
street, and is equipped with all the most recent appliances for the manufacture of lager. Its 
product is 40,000 barrels annually, principally disposed of to city and country patrons, the 
latter residing in this State and in Illinois. The expenses of this establishment are con- 
siderable. In the item of labor alone $40,000 per year is paid out. The expense for ice is 
about $25,000, and from 80,000 to 100,000 bushels of barley is consumed. The gentlemen 
composing the management are experienced in their vocation, and are thoroughly esteemed 
for high business qualifications." 

Mr. Grone has lived here some thirty-nine years. He was engaged in the manufacture 
of soda water up to 1861, and still is interested in that business. It was just about the out- 
break of the war that he began brewing. He is a Director in the Fourth National Bank, 
and a member of the Merchants Exchange. 

Mr. Link has lived here about twenty-five years. He has been in the brewing business 
about all of that time. Before coming to this country he had acquired quite a reputation as 
a brewer. Mr. Reimler, Secretary for the company, has been with the Grone brewery for 
about twelve of his fifteen years' residence here. 

The Grone Brewery Company is one of the incorporations of the year 1882. 

ARNDT & KOCH. 

General Pioduce Commission Merchants: n North Main Street. 

Arndt & Koch are a type of the later generation of business men in St. Louis. The 
house at No. 11 North Main Street was founded in May of last year. A specialty is made 
of domestic produce — poultry, eggs, butter, hides, furs, tallow, lard, wool, etc., and its bus- 
iness for the year just closed has aggregated close on to $100,000, a first-rate showing con- 
sidering the competition in this market. The location chosen by them is central and one of 
the most convenient for such a business that could be selected. It is near to the transporta- 
tion lines, within one block of the river, and in every way calculated to assist the connection 
between producer and consumer, a point of great moment in the handling of perishable 
merchandise. Messrs. Arndt & Koch have fairly established themselves in the confidence of 
a local and interior patronage such as many an older house has been years in acquiring. 
This has been accomplished only by persistency, method and painstaking devotion to the in- 
terest of consignors. Liberal advances are made by them. 

THE GREAT WESTERN OIL WORKS OF CLEVELAND, 

OHIO. 

Scofield, Shurmer & Teagle, Independent Refiners ot Petroleum; Gus. Wliittemore, Manager St. Louis 
Branch: Office and Warehouse, 1033 North Main Street. 

The Great Western Oil Company, of Cleveland, Ohio, is about the largest refiner of oil 
in the United States, outside of the Standard Oil Co., from whom it is entirely independent, 
and with whom it competed sharply. The capital of the Great Western Company is said to 
be $1,000,000. All of its products, gasoline, naptha, illuminating oils and lubricators, are 
manufactured at Cleveland, the St. Louis house being only a distributing point for the West- 
ward country, and intended to facilitate the company's trade with the West and South. The 
following well-known brands of oil are of the Great Western Company's manufacture: 
Standard White, iio*^; Family Headlight, 150°; Royal Headlight, 175°; Palacine (or Pal- 
ace Light); Snow Drop (water white); Ruby Illuminator (red oil); 63° Deod. Naphtha; 
74° Deod. Gasoline; XXXX Light Machine; Imperial Light Machine; Amber Light Ma- 
chine; Castor Light Machine; Royal Cylinder; Perfection Cylinder; Olivene Cylinder; 
Amber Cylinder; West Virginia Black Oil; Zero Cold Test Black Oil; 15" Cold Test Black 
Oil; 25° Cold Test Black Oil. 

Mr. Gus Whittemore, the Manager here, will be discovered, by intending purchasers, to 
be a clever and wide-awake business man, always ready to treat with them for trade, or to 
answer business queries. He is thoroughly well posted, and is in all respects a fine repesen- 
tative of the company's interests. 



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THE GEO. A. RUBELMANN HARD\A/'ARE CO. 

Dealers in Ciihinct ;ind GenL-rul Hardwari; ; 905 and 907 North Sixth Street, between Franklin Avenue 

and Wash Street. 

A history of this house could hardly be written without making of it a personal sketch of 
its energetic founder, who, beginning as a boy in 1S54 in this very establishment, has risen 
by his own exertions to the proprietorship of it. George A. Rubelmann, President of this 

company, was brought to St. 
Louis from Germany by his 
family when he was hardly 
more than a child in arms. 
At thirteen he was engaged 
with \Vm. Siever in the hard- 
ware line. Siever failed in 
1857, and Adolphus Meier 
& Co. took the business, giv- 
ing control to young Rubel- 
mann. He managed for the 
Meiers until 1S60, when, with 
his brother John G., hebought 
the establishment for $6,500, 
giving notes for the entire a- 
mount. After a hard strug- 
gle through the opening years 
of the war, they were ena- 
bled by extensions to con- 
tinue until Jan. 1st, 1863, at 
which time they paid all 
claims in full to that date. 
In 1875, G. A. sold out to 
his brother John, and opened 
elsewhere for himself, in a 
small way at first, but by 
gradually expanding opera- 
tions finally reaching a trade 
sufficient to justify the erec- 
tion of a special building for 
it, which structure was com- 
pleted in 18S2. Such is the 
history of the principal in 
^^ this concern, and it is due to 
him to say that he had but 
few advantages in the way of 
schooling, and acquired his 
knowledge of books for the 
most part after his day's work was done. As another instance of his energy and capacity, 
it may here be remarked also that Mr. Rubelmann was chiefly instrumental in bringing about 
the organization of the St. Louis Furniture Exchange. 

]\Ir. \Vm. Thomas Bennett is Secretary for the Rubelmann company, which was incor- 
porated in 18S1. Its trade is largely local, but it has a patronage reaching as far South as 
the Gulf, and Westward into Utah. Its specialties arc builders' and cabinet hardware. Its 
employes number twenty. 

THE FOURTH NATIONAL BANK. 

John C. II. D. Block, President; F. W. Biebinger, Cashier: corner of Fourth and Washing-ton Avenue. 

The Fourth National Bank of this city was nationalized in February of 1864. This 
institution has now been so long in operation as to have obtained to a remarkal)le degree the 
confidence of the business community. This is mainly because of the high opinion enter- 
tained of its executive officers and directors, who at the date of this writing are, John C. H. D. 
Block, President; F. W. Biebinger, Cashier; Christian Peper, Henry Grone, John II. 
Kaiser, Francis Cornet, C. L. Buschmann, Frederick E. Schmieding, Louis J. Holthaus, 
John C. II. D. Block and F. W. Biebinger, Directors. 

On March loth, 18S5, a statement of the condition of this bank was published that 




THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. lOl 

verifies the opinion generally expressed as to the conduct of its affairs. According to the 
(Jashier's account then rendered, the Capital Stock paid in was $500,000; the Surplus Fund, 
$400,000; the Contingent Fund, $81,301.79; the Undivided Profits, $91,316.27. Its circu- 
lation of $443,600 is secured by $500,000 of U. S. bonds. St. Louis city bonds were then in 
its possession to the amount of $141,000; specie, $507,510; together with resources total- 
ized at $4,824,068.19. 

The principal correspondents of this bank are: New York — First National Bank, 
Chatham National Bank, Hanover National Bank, Central National Bank. 

London, Eng. — The London Agency of the Deutsche Bank of Berlin. Paris, France — 
Marcuard, Krauss & Co. Berlin, Germany — Anhalt & Wagner Nachfolge. Bremen — Chas. 
F. Plump & Co. Frankfort — John GoU & Sons. 

Accounts of banks, bankers, firms, etc., respectfully solicited. U. S. bonds bought'and 
sold. 

MULDOON & SHARP. 

Pork-Packers and Wholesale Dealers in Provisions: 904 to 912 South Second Street. 

Mr. Patrick Muldoon and Mr. James Sharp, who comprise this firm, besides their regu- 
lar avocation, are both well and favorably known in this vicinity as members of the Mer- 
chants Exchange. They have also a great acquaintance with Southern and Southwestern 
dealers, much of their patronage being in those sections. The firm were formerly located at 
904 North Broadway, but owing to the rapid expansion of their trade, they removed to their 
present premises, so as to have greater facilities. The building there, all of which they now 
occupy, is 200 feet in length. The slaughter house where they do their packing is located 
at Canton, Mo. It is an elegant three-Story brick, and for the purpose for which it was in- 
tended could hardly be improved on. The firm has a wide reputation for square dealing, 
and always fill their orders with exceptional promptness, thereby holding all their old cus- 
tomers and continually adding new ones to the list. Having a reputation established does 
not make them relax their efforts, but they still keep progressing, which conduct certainly 
must redound to their advantage in the future as it has in the past. Muldoon & Sharp are 
the curers of the celebrated " Four-x\ce " hams, which are preferred by all the connoisseurs 
of this vicinity. 

THE ST. LOUIS DAIRY CO. 

President, Dr. I. G. W. Steedinan ; Vice-Pre>id;nt, J . F. L •« ; Chemist anil Inspector, Dr. Bernhard 
Stille; Analyst, Dr. H. Dettmer: Manager, J, Ch;trless Cabanne: Office, Twelfth and 

Cliestnut Streets. 

In May of 1882, this company was incorporated, for the purpose of supplying city con- 
sumers with unadulterated and wholesome milk. As a guarantee of good faith in this mat- 
ter, the organization, as appears in the heatllines to this account, included a chemist and an 
analyst, besi les the regular executive officers. A thorough system was adopted to insure the 
successful accomplishment of the project, the methods employed being best described in the 
following account, reprinted from a lecture delivered before the American Public Health 
Association: 

"The company began in May, 1883, with the custom of eight hundred families, which 
we have increased, May 1884, to fourteen hundred. Their first step was to secure the co- 
operation, by contract, of at least seventy-five farmers and shippers within the radius of 
forty- five miles of the city. The company has two milk depots, and assumes all risk of 
fermentation in transit. Upon the arrival of the milk at their establishment, samples from 
every farm are tested, or submitted to analysis, as the case may be, by two thorough chem- 
ists, who are constantly employed for that purpose, in order to maintain an average standard 
and detect any adulterations. 

" Samples are afterwards taken daily, by the assistant inspectors, from the delivery 
wagons in all parts of the city, and tested, to prevent the drivers from adulterating it, ana 
again taken from the houses of customers and tested to see if it is being tampered with by 
the servants; and, in addition to this, the assistant inspectors are required to go into not less 
than fifteen houses every day to have a paper signed by the customer, asking if there is any 
cause for dissatisfaction. This is done to control the assistant inspector. 

" When a complaint is made, the assistant inspector is sent to the house of the party 
complaining, from which a sample is taken and brought to the laboratory, and the result of the 
analysis is mailed to the customer. If the milk or cream is up to the standard, nothing 
more is done; but if not, the assistant inspector goes to the locality and watches for the 
driver; when the driver reaches the customer, he gets on his wagon and takes a sample of 
the milk or cream for the purpose of comparison with the sample or samples taken from the 



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house two or three hours later. If the sample taken from the house is poorer than the 
sample taken from the wagon, they know the servant is to blame; if both samples are poor, 
they compare them with the samples taken when the milk arrives from the farmer, and if 
poorer than such sample, they know that the driver is to Ijlame. 

" With such a systematic and scientific surveillance as is constantly pursued by this 
method, the adulteration of the milk delivered is reduced to a minimum. The quantity of 
milk sold during the month of June, 1883, 17,425 gallons, and the quantity of cream, 2,500 
gallons, as compared with 26,743 gallons of milk and 3,766 gallons of cream sold during the 
month of June, 1884, shows an established confidence and satisfactory increase in the busi- 
ness." 

The St. Louis Dairy Company has thirteen delivery wagons running in the city. Cus- 
tomers are supplied by it with champagne milk, ice cream and cheese. 

THE MEDART PATENT PULLEY CO. 

Philip and Wm. ^Icdurt, Manufacturers (■£ Wroufjht Iron Rim Pulleys : 1206 t) 1214 North Main Street. 

The Medart patent pulley has now come into such general use that to enlarge upon its 
many merits seems unnecessary. The Medart Brothers have been making these pulleys at 
1206 to 1 2 14 North Main street, in this city, now for two years, prior to that time having 

been manufacturing at Seventh and Wal- 




nut streets. The number of their employes 
(65), and the many agencies established 
in their interest, both in this country and 
abroad, indicate the importance of this in- 
dustry to St. Louis. The company has 
stores in Chicago at 24 and 26 South Canal 
street, and in Cincinnati at 99 West Second 
street. They carry from seven to eight 
thousand pulleys in both of these establish- 
ments. Licenses to manufacture under the 
company's patent have been issued for 
Chemnitz, Germany, and Manchester, 
England; also for the Eastern States and 
the Pacific Coast. All otherterritory is re- 
served by the concern to be supplied from 
the central works in St. Louis. 

The Medart Brothers are theiiatentees 
of then pulley-1. They make their own patterns and have every facility possible right in the 
works for rapid and thorough workmanship. A handsome catalogue issued by the firm is 
now being distributed. As showing the breadth of the company's business, it may here be 
mentioned that an edition of 50,000 copies is now being rapidly exhausted. 

THE JACOB STRAUS SADDLERY CO. 

Jacob Straus, President; Philip Constam, Vice-President; Adolph Sondheimer, Secretary and Treas- 
urer; Wholesale Manufacturers of Saddlery, and Jobbers of Saddlery Hardware : 
519 and 521 North Main Street. 

This house has been engaged in business here since 1871, although the stock company 
was incorporated only two years ago. The Straus Saddlery company is one of the largest of 
its kind in the country. It has fourteen traveling men in its service, who do business for it 
all over the United States, and even in Canada and British Columbia. The total number of 
its employes is 400. 

This large force is engaged in the manufacture of numerous specialties, among them 
Straus' patent halter, Straus' all leather flexible saddle, Straus' patent metal spring side sad- 
dle, Straus' patent combination spring liar and spring seat saddle, Straus' patent gig saddle, 
patent coach pad, patent rim collars, patent throat collars, and patent sweat pad. Exhibits 
of these wares at the Expositions here anil elsewhere have invariably been given premiums. 

The ])rincipals in this house are all old residents and experienced tradesmen. Mr. 
Straus has been here some thirty years, always in this one line, having served his appren- 
ticeship to the trade in this city. He is a practical mechanic himself. Mr. Sontlheimer has 
had twenty-five years residence in St. Louis, He was, until 1878, when he acquired his in- 
terest in this house, in the wholesale dry goods line. Mr. Constam, the Vice-President, has 
been twenty-five years in this State. P'ormerly he was in general merchandising at Jeffer- 
son City. 



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LACLEDE HOTEL. 

Griswolcl & Sperr}-, Proprietors: Broadway, Sixth and Chestnut Streets. 
This popular house was erected in 1S73, by the late Dr. Rudolph Bircher, and by his 
estate sold to Nanson, Pegram & Co., the junior member of which firm, Moses Ililliard, sold 
the property to the present proprietors, Messrs. J. L. Griswold and W. F. Sparry, in 18S1. 

Mr. Griswold had been one 
of the original lessees and 
proprietors of the Lindell 
Hotel, and was for seven 
years associated in its man- 
agement. Mr. Sperry's ho- 
tel experience has included 
a clerkship for twelve years 
in the Planters House, and 
the proprietorship of the 
Alvord House, in Denver, 
Col. The enterprising and 
experienced new proprietors 
expended upwards of $50,- 
000 in improving and add- 
ing to the building; and the 
ownership of the property 
so reduces expenses, that 
Griswold & Sperry are en- 
abled to furnish accommodations at a lesser rate than if compelled annually to pay large 
rent. This advantage necessarily benefits patrons. 

The hotel is an iron and stone building, six stories in height, and is practically fire- 
proof, all necessary precautions having been added, such as iron floors under elevator and 
abundant methods of egress. The accommodations are excellent, including 175 light and 
airy rooms for guests, and room for five hundred persons. There is a large, roomy office, 
rotunda, lobbies and corridors, as well as a spacious reading room, all with tiled floors. A 
large number of permanent boarders patronize the house, and it is very popular with the 
traveling public. During political campaigns the rotunda is a great resort for National, State 
and local politicians, and the hotel is then a political headquarters also. 

CHARLES HUMES & CO. 

Fine Builders' Haidware, Cutlery and Mechanics' Tools: No. 11 North Sixth Street. 

The pre-eminence of St. Louis as a centre in the wholesale hardware trade is largely 
due to the standing of the firms here representing that interest, and to the excellence of the 
wares offered. No firm in this market enjoys greater distinction for the superiority of its 
builders' hardware and mechanics' tools than Charles Humes & Co., doing business at No. 
II North Sixth street for the past fourteen years, and for twenty-five years before estab- 
lished at the corner of Third street and Washington avenue. 

This old and prominent house was founded in 1S45, by C. DuBois, who two years later 
was joined by Mr. Charles Humes, the head of the present house, and who succeeded to 
the business in 1S52. He was subsequently joined by two sons, one of whom — Mr. Ralph 
Humes — remains, and is the junior partner of this oldest house in its line in St. Louis. 

The specialty of the firm is wholesaling and retailing fine builders' hardware, to both city 
and country. The first floor and basement of the store is fully stocked with a very fine variety 
of wares of this kind. Ten salesmen and office attaches are employed in the establishment. 

A. ROBBINS & CO. 

Manufacturers of Varnishes ; 1537 and 1539 North Eighth Street. 
The principal in this house was a resident in St. Louis so long ago as 1847, but for some 
years he was out of the city. Returning just after the war, in 1866, he established the works 
of which he is now proprietor, thus being the oldest varnish manufacturer in the city. Mr. 
Robliins is a practical varnish maker, having been engaged in the business in Boston before 
he established himself here. He has been eight years in his present location, and has ample 
facilities therein to supply his fair share of the States West and South, which is the territory 
where most of his patrons are. He makes varnishes of first quality, and is prepared for any 
emergency of the trade, with ample capital, stock and resources. 



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A. C. L. HAASE & SON. 

Wholesale Dealers in and Packers of European and Domestic Fish, Canned Goods, etc.: 10 South 

Second Street. 

The senior member of this house has a personality aside from his daily avocation. He 
has been prominent in public affairs. As a member of the City Council, his term of office 
running from 1877 to 1879, and although often solicited to serve the people in similar capaci- 
ties, has been compelled to decline on the score of business responsibilities. He is one of 
the " old-time " merchants of this vicinity. He was a wholesaler from 1852 to 1854, and 
was for three years after that in the saddlery trade. The year 1857 was the time he iirst be- 
gan transactions in the line in which his resources are now embarked. Mr. Haase, Jr. has 
been an associate with his father since 18S0. Together they are conducting the most im- 
portant enterprise of the kind in this section, that designated by the headlines to this sketch. 

Their house has a trade with Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Arkansas and Texas, 
aggregating annually the sum of $150,000. They import Holland herring sardines, Dutch 
herbs, etc., and make specialties of the packing and sale of canned fish, sardines, caviar, 
eels, cervelat sausage, salami, Westphalia or imported sausage, Swiss, limburg, factory 
cheese, and other delicacies of that sort. 

Mr. Haase, the elder, is a shining example of what industry, perseverance and intelli- 
gence can accomplish. He started upon his business career with a most insignificant capital. 
During recent campaigns, as has been already remarked, he is sought after to grace some of 
the most important municipal stations; and whatever distinction is his he has earned by his 
own effort. 

THE ST. LOUIS COFFIN CO. 

Henry M. Bryan, President; Henry Hollrah, Secretary and Treasurer: Manufacturers of Coffins, 
Caskets and Undertakers' Supplies: Thirleenth and Poplar Streets, One Square from the 

Union Depot. 

J. H. Lewis & Co. founded this establishment about five years ago. Six months later 
the St. Louis Coffin Company was incorporated and had acquired possession of the busi- 
ness. There are 125 employes at work in this factory. Their wages amount to from $800 
to a $1,000 per week. Shipments are made to California, to Cuba and South America, to 
England, to the Eastern States, and, in fact, to all parts of the world. To England oak 
coffins are shipped. 

This is the second largest coffin factory in the world, a Cincinnati concern only having a 
greater patronage. But that establishment lacks one facility that the St. Louis company has 
—i. e. the specialty of shipments in " knock-down" shape. This is a great advantage in 
foreign shipments, for it saves heavy freight charges. The company owns the patents for this 
improvement, by which even air-tight coffins can be made. There is no other house in the 
United States manufacturing oak coffins besides this one. 

The President of this company, Mr. Bryan, is a practicing attorney, and the general man- 
agement thus devolves on Secretary Hollrah, who having been bred to the business, and having 
had charge for Lewis & Co., is thoroughly competent to direct affairs. As an indication of the 
business done, it may be mentioned that the factory runs from Thirteenth to Fourteenth 
streets, is four stories high, and has an estimated floor-surface of 88,000 square feet. 

A. UNGAR & CO. 

Steiim Printers and Binders : 116 and 118 Chestnut Street. 

B. Schoeneman of Chicago, and A. Ungar of St. Louis, four years ago succeeded to the 
printing business of Rudolph Liehr, at 1 16 and 1 18 Chestnut street. Liehr's had been for 
many years before an old and long established printing and binding house, first opened during 
the war. Since acquiring the business, Messrs. Ungar & Co. have added to the original con- 
cern a department for the manufacture of folding boxes, cigar cases, cigar bags, s]3ecial en- 
velopes, etc., the success of which has fully equaled their expectations. The demand for 
these manufactures comes principally from the West, but a patronage from Illinois, Indiana, 
Kentucky, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas,. and the territories help to swell the annual trans- 
actions, which now equal fully $50,000 per year. The house occupies fine premises, three 
floors of which are 80x120 feet in area, employs about thirty hands, whose wages are about 
$275 per week, and is notable as a progressive, accommodating and popular establishment, 
whose credit is of the best, whose resources are ample, and whose goods are of the best 
quality manufactured. 



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J. F. SAUNDERS & CO. 

Produce : Packers of Green and Dried Fruits and Vegetables : 9 South Main Street. 

The principals in this house, J. F. Saunders and John Ruloff, are lifelong produce mer- 
chants; both men of varied experience and comprehensive knowledge of the business inall 
its details. Mr. Saunders was one of the firm of D. W. Van Houten from 1878 until its 
dissohition in 1884, which is the year of his venture with Mr. Ruloff, who, it may here be 
remarked, had been the manager of the Valley Produce Company before that time. This 
house has a Southern and Northwestern trade that aggregates $200,000 yearly. Its princi- 
pal transactions are in domestic produce, such as potatoes, apples, onions, flour, cider 
pickles, dried fruit, beans, cheese, butter and kraut. Having long established connections 
with the producers of the interior and a first-class record for fair dealing, it has an expand- 
ing trade in all these commodities, and is well prepared to accommodate both consignors 
and purchasers. 

THE EUREKA VINEGAR CO. 

£. S. Plummer, President; John S. Lewis, Vice-President and Treasurer; W. B. I'lummer, Secretary: 
Office, 116 Pine Street: Factory in the Rear. 

The business now so successfully operated by this company was inaugurated in 1871. 
A large amount of vinegar of this company's manufacture is annually shipped to the South, 
Southwest and other places where its patrons are, and the high quality of this product is 
uniforndy commended wherever it has been marketed. The company claims also that its 
cider is the linest in the world, and will guarantee it to be pure apple juice; this they fur- 
nish in both glass and wood. The Eureka Company's br^nd or trade-mark rather, is surety 
that no unwholesome ingredient is contained in the package that bears it. The utmost pains 
is taken to insure purity and genuineness; and cleanliness is one of the cardinal principles 
of manufacture, as riiay be demonstrated by a visit to the works, the situation of which is 
given above. Terms to purchasers at a distance made by correspondence or by the com- 
pany's travelers. 

RASSFELD & SOEKER. 

Wholesale Dealers in Bourbon, Rye and Domestic Whiskies, and Importers of Wines and Brandies: 

115 Noith Second Street. 

Mr. A. Rassfeld and Chas. Soeker, of this house, were, with Mr. Fred. Peper, the 
founders of it. The first business transacted by them was in 1867. In 1869 Mr. Peper re- 
tired and the firm's name was changed to Nulsen, Rassfeld & Co. It so continued until 
1876, when Nulsen, Rassfeld & Co. dissolved. Messrs. Rassfeld and Soeker, after the sep- 
aration, started anew in the location they are in at present. These gentlemen are re-distil- 
lers as well as importers. Their house has had a clean record from the start. Country buy- 
ers who have once patronized it give it preference over other liquor houses because of its just, 
truthful and clever conduct in all transactions, great or small. No misrepresentations are 
ever permitted to he made by its employes for any purpose whatever. It has also a most 
satisfactory h-'cal trade. 

C. E. UDELL & CO. 

Cheese Dealers ; 114 Pine Street. 

This house formerly handled butter, beans and miscellaneous produce, but for the last 
eight years has dealt in cheese exclusively. Of course, in order to make a specialty of that 
sort profitable, it must be handled in large quantities, so that strong resources are necessary 
to carry on the operations. The annual transactions of this house — $350,000 — show that 
such are its methods. 

Mr. C. E. Udell, the principal in the house, began his business career as a clerk for the 
well-known house of F. B. Chamberlain & Co. Here it was that his knowledge of the com- 
mission trade was acquired, and it is safe to say that he was trained in a good school. 
Afterwards he was clerk for S. R. Udell & Co., which firm he bought out in June of 1SS2. 
He then succeeded to a business that had an eight-year record to recommend it. 

The trade of this house is only with the wholesalers; sales are made to none other. 
Mr. Udell is a typical commission dealer, persistent, speedy and thorough in all his unlir- 
lakings. His business methods are well appreciated by the trade. 



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THE LUDLOW-SAYLOR ^A^IRE CO. 

R. C. Ludlow, Presiilcnt; B. F. Saylor, Vicc-rresident ; Alfred Clifford, Treasurer; Manufacturers of 
and Dealers in Wire and Wire Goods; 116 South Fourth Street, opposite the Southern. 

This concern is reckoned amongst the largest dealers, in their line, in America. The house 
is an old one and the trade has been long established. The business was founded by R. C. 
Ludlow in 1856. The incorporation dates from 1875, and was then made to facilitate the man- 
agement of the widespread affairs of the company, which has a trade that extends from the Gulf 
to the Lakes, and from the Ohio River to the Pacific Coast. Such is the volume of its trans- 
actions thereabouts, that this company has almost a monopoly of the trade with the Western 
and Southern country in such specialties as wire cloth, wire rope, fences and railings, sand, 
coal and ore screens, etc. Other wares in which it has a most satisfactory traffic are barbed 
and plain fencing wire, and the staples of the trade, such as bird cages and fancy wire 
goods. 

This house, as has been intimated, is well and favorably known as much by its uniform 
and kindly treatment of patrons as by the scope of its transactions. Amply prepared for all 
irregularities of the trade by reason of its capital and resources, it is also able to scale its 
[irices to suit the times, proposing to do business not for a season but permanently. Busi- 
ness proffers promptly attended to, either from the home office or by the company's travelers. 

SEIDEL & WINKLER. 

Carpenters and Joiners: Churches, BanUs, Stores, etc., fitted up in all kinds of Soft and Hard Wood: 
Office and Sales-rooms, 517 Locust Mrccl; Factory, S. K. Corner Linn and Soulard Streets. 

This firm, which is very well-known in business and residence circles throughort the 
city, is composed of Ernest Louis Seidel and Fred. August Winkler, both practical workmen, 
who have been associated together in this line for twenty-two years, in St. Louis. Their 
specialty is the manufacture of store fixtures, but they also fit up churches, banks, saloons, 
etc., in all kinds of thoroughly seasoned soft and hard wood, to order, their practice being to 
lurnish designs, and on approval to execute the work. Thus they keep no ready-made 
stock on hand. 

The office, designing and sales-rooms are located, as for many years past, at 517 Locust 
street, and occupy the second and third floors, 22x120 feet, and their factory, corner o Linn 
and Soulard streets, is an extensive building covering three stories 50x125 feet. The average 
number of workmen empkived is twenty, but in the busier seasons as many as thirty-five 
are engaged. As the nature of the excellent work done by the firm requires choice and 
thoroughly seasoned material, they constantly carry a stock of $4,000 or $5,000 worth of 
lumber, as they would not be able to get choice stock from dealers on short notice. Their 
trade is mostly in the city, and very extensive, for their work is always approved, as artistic 
in design, well fitted and durable. 

THE FRANZ KREIN MANUFACTURING CO. 

Franz Krein, President and Treasurer: M. I.itinian, Vice-President; Manufacturers of Wood 
Haines, Trace, Coil, Ox, J. 01; and W.igon Chains, etc. : 90! to 911 Howiird Street. 

The largest establishment of the sort indicated by these headlines. West of Pittsburg, is 
that which is herein described. It was founded in 1861 by Franz Krein, now President of 
the stock company. He began in a small way with but one assistant, and by persistency and 
application had built up an unusually good patronage when Mr. Liftman joined him in 187S, 
and the incorporation was effected. The beginning was made by Mr. Krein at Eighth an I 
Howard streets. In 1876 removal was made to more convenient quarters at the present site. 
Phe works of this company ernjiloy 275 men, and cover one entire block. The pay-roll "f 
the men counts up to about $3,000 a week, so that it may be seen that the assertion with 
which this account opens, that it is the largest establishment of its kind in the West, is not at 
all exaggerated. 

The specialties of the Franz Krein Company are wooden hames and chains, but sa(!- 
dlery hardware of all sorts is also manufactured, such for instance as trace, coil, ox, lo'j; 
and wagon chains, saddle trees, wagon single trees, rings, clips, plowdouble and single 
trees, open links, etc. 

Mr. Littman is a resident of St. Louis since 1869. As has been already stated, he 
has been interested with this company since 1878. Mr. Krein, it may also he pertinent to 
remark, is a director of the St. Louis Mutual Fire Insurance Cnmpa-.iy. 



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F. M. FOY. 

General Aseiit for M. S: J.Kuincly of L:i Porte, Ind. ; Manufacturers <.f the Kuincly rorl:ihlc ;ind 

Traction Enfjinus, Separators, Ilorse-Powers, Ice Elevators, Friction Clutclies, 

Boilers, etc. ; Corner of Tenth ami Spruce Streets. 

At the beginning of this year, the Rumely 
Company of La Porte, Ind., in order to 
expedite its rapidly expanding trade with the 
country \\ est of the Mississi])pi, established an 
agency here under the management of Mr. V. 
M . Foy. Tliat gentleman has already disjilayed 
s]ieedy business characteristics, and has 
Oldened up the territory designed to be reached 
with spirit and judgment. His task has been 
the ligliter because of the fact that the Rumely 
manufactures had acquired a good repu- 
tation in these parts, and were salable in this 

- market because of their superiority. For 

j..s^ instance: Rumely portable and traction en- 
gines were av\arded first prizes at the Sedalia 
Fair of 1881, i8S2-'83; at Higginsville, Mo., 1883; and at Kansas City in 1883. Thus it 
will be seen that the Rumely Steam Thresher has been the favorite in this section of coun- 
try, as well as where it is manufactured, for a long time back. 

M. & J. Rumely began to manufacture first in the year 1852. Their venture on the start 
was a nioilest one. During the first year they niaile and sold but four machines. Now the 
works cover an entire scjuare of ground at La 
Porte, and they employ several hundred men. 
Agencies are maintained at Milwaukee, at Lex- 
ington, Ky., and in St. Louis, the effort being 
to keep pace with a demand reaching from Wis- 
consin to Texas, and notable even in Dakota. 
Parties having dealings with Mr. Foy will find 
him a most agreeable and clever manager of 
the affairs entrusted to him. 

GEO. BLACKMAN & CO. 

Dealers in Leather and Manufacturers' Goods: 306 North Main Street. 

Undoubtedly the oldest house of the sort in St. Louis is that which is now located at 
306 North Main street. Founded in 1834, by J. F. Comstock, as a small shoe and leathc; 
house, the records of the establishment show that in 1857 Mr. Comstock was in partnership 
with James Blackman; that in 1867 the business was divided, and the leather house wa'^ 
thereafter conilucted by "Jas. Blackman & Co." (Mr. Comstock being the Co.), whilst the 
shoe house was conducted independently by Mr. Comstock. In 1S76 Mr. Geo. Blackman 
bought out the leather house, and has since conducted it umler the designation at the head of 
this sketch. 

As has been already said, this is not only an old house, with all the characteristics of 
age — strength, vigor and resources — but it is also one that has few rivals that outstrip it in 
sjieed and progressiveness. In the general Ime of shoe and harness leather it has a yearly 
trade that probably amounts to $200,000. Its customers are located in at least twelve 
States, principally those of the West and Southwest, Patrons therein hold it in high regard. 

GEO. K. HOPKINS & CO. 

Wholesale Druggists: JO-^aiul Jii North Second Street. 

The name of Hopkins was associated with the drug trade in this section even before that 
vast interest was so largely developed in St. Louis. In earlier years, when Alton, 111., up 
the river, was a trade centre and the seat of large manufacturing interests, many of which 
have since been transferred to St. Louis, the wholesale drug house of Quigley, Hopkins (S: 
Lea was known far and near. With that old established house the Messrs. Hopkins, of the 
St. Louis firm of Geo. K. Hopkins & Co., were for several years connected. 

In the spring of 1879, Messrs. Geo K. Hopkins, Wni. II. Weller and F. P. Hopkins 
established themselves here at 209 and 211 North Second street. Mr. Weller had lived i 1 




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St. Louis since 1865, and his experience, too, in the drug line, had been a very ripe one, he 
havuig been in the employment of Wm. Doeuch & Co. and of A. A. Mellier, Vjoth well- 
known wholesale druggists. In their enlarged sphere of usefulness, the practical knowledge 
and business energy of the new firm rapidly developed a large and constantly increasing 
business, so that commercial travelers operating in Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, 
Tennessee, Kentucky and Mississippi are kept constantly on the move among their numerous 
customers in those sections, and the house is in like manner busily employed at all times in 
filling the orders thus and otherwise received. 

The premises of the establishment on North Second street, the wholesale trade centre, 
are quite extensive, covering four floors and cellar. The first is devoted to the salesrooms, 
office and shipping department, the second to the general order department, the third, fourth 
and cellar to goods in original packages. Confining itself strictly to jobbing drugs and 
druggists' notions, the house enjoys the confidence of the trade in the fullest sense; and sys- 
tematic and energetic management of the business has largely contributed to the past and 
present prosperity of the firm, as well as ensuring its success in the future. 

BERRY & MATHEWS. 

Proprietors of the St. Louis Chewing Gum MaBiifactory, and Manufacturers of all kinds of Prize 

Goods : 202 Market Street. 

=::,=::=!;■ -^""iiirn^ ^sslu.:.^-!^?^ •'*• Louis claims the distinction of having the 

largest manufactory of chewing gum in the Uuited 
States, that of Berry & Mathews, who have been 
the proprietors of the St. Louis Chewing Gum 
Manufactory since the beginning of 1883. This 
company imports the raw gum from South America 
and other foreign parts. The only genuine Taffy 
Tolu made in America is that marketed by it. 
The only pure and unadulterated gum in this mar- 
ket is that which it handles. There is no other 
concern west of the Mississippi that competes with 
this one. 

Berry & Mathews hail originally from Nash- 
-.ille, Tenn., where the former was once in the 
'.-holesale lumber line and the latter was in the 
:,ame business as at present. Mr. Mathews has 
een in this trade all his life. The house supplies 
v.e w^hosesale dealers and jobbers only. These in 
lurn supply the retailers. Berry & Mathews' pro- 
ducts are thus to be found in all the confectionery 
-tores of the country, North, East, South and 
West. 

This factory employs about 80 hands, of whom 
perhaps 50 are girls. The annual sales of gum, 
j/rize candy and other confectionery proVjably 
amount to $750,000. At least 2,500 boxes of candy and gum are shipped daily, represent- 
ing from $600 to $1,000 of value for these products alone. The business methods of this 
house are unexceptionable. 

BATTLE & CO. CHEMISTS' CORPORATION. 

-. S. Blackwell, President; C. A. Battle, Vice-President; J. M. Battle, Secretary and Treasurer: 

402 Xorth Main Street. 

Among the corporations and firms engaged in the manufacture of preparations ac- 
cording to approved formulas, and for physicians' practice, none is held in higher profes- 
sional and popular esteem than the Battle &c Co. Chemists' Corporation, at 402 North Main 
street. 

Established in 1874, under the firm name of Battle & Co., by the same chemists and 
practical business men as now compose the executive officers of the corporation, which latter 
was formed in 1883, the house has steadily grown in the extent of its manufactures, and in 
enlargement of its basis of operations. To meet the demand for their goods in Europe, on 
Ajnil 1st, 1SS5, the corporation established a Viranch office and laboratory in Lonrloi;, Eng. 
Their office is situated at 38 Southampton Row, Holborn, "W. C. As manufacturers of phar- 
maceutical preparations for physicians, this house may be considered one of the pioneers, 
and is recogniicJ as a leauing one in its special hue, and deservedly prosperous. 







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MERRICK, WALSH & PHELPS. 



linporlint; Jcv 



uul Silversmiths: Fine I)i:iin'ind 
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Xorth l''oiirlli Street, 




This house has been about six years in business here. The present 
quarters of the firm have been occupied by it since the great fire of 
1884, when Burrell, Comstock & Co., Merrick, Walsh & Phelps, and 
other houses, were burnt out. The establishment at 513 North Fourth 
street is said to be fitted up in handsomer shape than any jewelry store 
in the city. The specialties of the house are fine diamonds ami jewelry; 
also fine Swiss watches, made by Patck, Philipe & Co., of Geneva. 

Less pretentious than other firms in their line, the house of Mer- 
rick, Walsh & Phelps has the atlvantage of being everywhere recognized 
as in the largest sense reliable, in respect to its rejiresentation of goods 
offered for sale and the reasonable character of its charges. In this 
class of goods, entire relial)ility as to representations made is a factor 
most largely contributing to the success of any firm, and the guaranty of 
this firm may always be confidently relied upon by purchasers. The 
\\ ares of the house are of the highest order of beauty, genuineness and 
durability. 

The trade is mostly local, but a good country trade is being built 
up by the firm. 

THOS. RHODUS' SONS. 

Cominissinn Merchants; Consignments of Grain, Tobacco, Wool, Hides, Furs aiul Country Produce 
generally soliciled : 314 North Commercial Street. 

Thos. Rhodus commmenced business in the commission line on North Second Street, 
near Chestnut, so long ago as 1S60, and was for twenty years located in that one spot (at 
No. 27), a fact which shows the stability of this house. Removal was only made to accom- 
modate the expanding operations of the establishment. The States of Missouri, Kansas, 
Texas, Arkansas, Iowa and Illinois contribute to its patronage and trade, equalling $1,000- 
000 per annum. Quick sales, prompt returns and honorable business methods are the causes 
of this remarkable prosperity. The capital and ample resources of this establishment give 
assurance that this prosperity can and will be continued. 

Mr. Rhodus has been twenty-live years all told in business for himself. Twenty years 
of this time, as has been said, have been devoted to commission transactions; the other five 
years to leaf tobacco exclusively. He has handled tobacco during the whole twenty-five 
years, however, and has an expert knowledge of all matters appertaining thereto. He is a 
gentleman of clever and obliging disposition, and has business abilities ot a high order. 

THE FRANKLIN BANK. 

Henry Meier, President ; G. \V. Garrels, Cashier: Fourth Street, Corner of Morgan. 

In 1873 there were no less than sixty-two banks doing business in St. Louis. The princi- 
ple of the survival of the fittest, or rather the soundest, seems to be happily illustrated in the 
fact that of all that remarkable number but twenty-four now survive. The conservative 
tendencies of these later days, especially in matters of fiduciary res]ionsibility, are almost as 
well indicated by the further fact that no bank has been openetl here since 1S72. 

The Franklin Bank, formerly the Franklin Avenue German Savings Institution, is one 
of those that by reason of most excellent management has outlasted all the seasons, good and 
bad, since the time of great financial inflation just instanced. Tiie Franklin Bank is organ- 
ized under the general banking laws of 1865. In 1880 the building of the North St, Louis 
Savings Association was bought by it, and removal was then made from the old quarters at 
Sixth and Franklin Avenue to the present location — handier to the business center of the 
city — corner of Fourth and Morgan streets. The Franklin thus became a commercial bank 
with correspondents as follows : 

New York, the American Exchange National Bank; New Orleans, the Louisiana 
National Bank; Boston, the National Revere bank; London, Eng., tiie Alliance Bank; 
Leipsic, Ger., Knauth, Nachcl & Kiihre. The capital stock of this bank has been increased 
by its own earnings, from $60,000 to $200,000. On March 31st last, the official statement of 
the Franklin's officers showed that its surjilus fund then was $133,765.29; that it had de- 
posits of $1.356,591 .53, pnd that its resources all told, including u:idoubtedly good loans and 



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<liscounts, U. S. ami other bonds, cash and exchange, and the jiroperty in which it does bus- 
iness, were of a total value of $1,690,656.82. 

The Directors of this institution, all gentlemen whose standing make for it an additional 
security, are: Jas. H. Forbes, Fr. H. Krenning, H. S. Piatt, F. W. Reipschlaeger, J. Ci. 
Kaiser, Henry Meier, Geo. O. Wijipern, Ad. Moll, and J. B. Woestman. The administra- 
tive officers have been already mentioned in the headlines to this sketch. Tne iidelity cf 
these gentlemen in the past is a sufficient guarantee for the future. 

THE ROCHESTER MACHINERY MANUFACTURING CO. 

G. P. AVoiniL-r & Sons; Engines, Boilers and Mining Machinery: 55 to 59 Woodbridge Street, Detroit : 
3^ and 36 West Monroe Street, Chicago; S07 North Second Street, St. Louis. 

Although during the year past this house has felt the same depression that has affected 
other houses, its trade on the whole has been most satisfactory. The Rochester Manufact- 
uring Company has houses at the points mentioned above. The field, for the St. Louis brancli 

being practically unlimited, and its manage- 
ment during the five years that it has been e.s- 
tablished here having been unexceptionable, it 
is not to be wondered at that it has been do- 
ing a fairer business than any of the other 
concerns operated by the Messrs. Wormer. 
Four of the family are connected with the 
house, G. S., C. C, F. T., and T. K., the 
latter as manager and resident partner c' 
the St. Louis department. The main con 
cern has been in operation now for thirty 
eight years. The various branches cover the trade of all the States, and from St. Louis ship' 
ments also are made into Mexico. The house here does an almost exclusively cash trade 
Its business yearly approaches closely to $300,000. 

THE FAY GAS FIXTURE CO. 

Ephron Callin, Preiident ; L. Wetteroth, Secretary and Treasurer ; Plumbing, Gas P"itting, Regilding, 
Rebronzing: 520 Washington Avenne. 

This is t'.;e establishment that fits out the elegant boats of the Anchor line, the new 
"City of Natchez" being the latest done by it. The house deals in fixtures and gas fitters' 
supplies, both wholesale and retail. When the company was organized in 1879, the businc!?s 
of Jas. D. Fay & Co., then twelve years or more in ojieration, was bought out by it. The 
course of events since has shown this to have been a good investment. 

The capital stock of the company is $30,000. About thirty-five employes on an average 
are engaged. The trade is largely local, but is good also with the West and South. The 
house has been lowz en(juHh in business to have a most enviable record. 




F. W. ROSENTHAL & CO. 

Importers and Jol>bers of Wall Paper, Carpets and Curtain Goods : Nos. 410 & 412 North Fourth Street. 

A distinguished European savant who recently visited America and spent a short time 
in St. Louis, during which he was entertained by several of our leading citizens, remarked 
upon the culture and artistic taste he encountered here, and especially admired the house- 
hold decorations and belongings he viewed. 

To no house is this improvement in artistic taste so largely due as to the popular estab- 
lishment of F. W. Rosenthal & Co., at 410 and 412 North Fourth street, importers and job- 
bers of wall paper, carpets and curtain goods, whose trade extends through the West and 
South, and East as far as Indiana. The firm was established in 1854, and is composed of 
F. W. and C. W. Rosenthal. Their extensive premises occupy 40x100 feet, four stories 
high, and they are the largest dealers in wall paper west of New York, as well as leaders in 
fashions in these decorative wares. 

The ]jrincipal trade is wholesaling in wall paper and car]5ets, but the firm has also a very 
large retail trade in carpets and window shades. The senior of the firm was for a number 
of years a director of the German Savings Bank, and has always Ijeen foremost in St. Louis 
business enterprises. C. W. Rosenthal was born and raised here, and has always been 
identified with business in this section. The firm is a prosperous and popular one, and con- 
tinuously eni])loys abont fi/ty assistants in tl.e conduct of the business. 




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THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. I93 

THE HEISLER ELECTRIC LIGHT CO. 

Chas. Heisler, President; Manufacturers and Patentees of Arc and Incandescent Dynamo Machines 

and Limps: also American Carbon Co., Manufacturers of buperior Carbons for Electric Lights ; 

ai'^o Heisler Electric Bell and Burglar Alarm Co.; and the St. Louis Illuminating Company, 

furnishing E'ectrjc Light from Central Stations: St. Louis Offices and Works, 80910^17 

South Seventh Street; Chicago Office, 191 Washington Street: New York Office, 44 

Vcsey Street. 

These enterprises are grouped together, for they are all the product of the inventive 
genius and mechanical ingenuity of a single mind. They are also under the direction of the 
same mechanical engineer and electrician, who came to St. Louis in 1870, with the thorough- 
ness of a German education, and has done more to devise and render electric lighting prac- 
tical and popular in the West than any man living. We refer to Charles Heisler, the founder 
of the only Electric Light Manufacturing Company in St. Louis, and which, most properly, 
bears his name. 

As we remember Mr. Heisler and his St. Louis career, he first commenced making 
hotel annunciators, burglar alarms, house bells, etc., in which he succeeded — as he seems to 
do in everything he undertakes — and subsequently formed a corporation, of which he is 
President, called the "Heisler Electric Bell and Burglar Alarm Co.*' This corporation does 
a large manufacturing business, and its devices are found in many of the leading hotels in 
the country. There are 10,000 of them in actual use, and they are built with such mechan- 
ical perfection that they never need readjustment or attention after putting up. Indeed the 
company has successfully demonstrated the fact that with perfected apparatus, of the Heisler 
make, electric bells and other electrical goods are far superior to and more reliable than the 
mechanical appliances heretofore used. St. Louis, through the successful operation of the 
instruments put in by this company, heads the list of cities in the world, having completely 
abolished the use of pull bells for dwellings. 

But the aim of Mr. Heisler's life had been the developing and perfecting of an electric 
system he had studied out and devised. It was not long until his indomitable will mastered 
all obstacles, and soon the Heisler Electric Light began to adorn public buildings in St. 
Louis and other Western cities, and met with popular admiration and acceptance. The 
business increased, and in April, 1882, the Heisler Electric Light Co. was incorporated, 
with the inventor and patentee as President, and proceeded to extensively manufacture. 
This corporation, with a paid up capital of $200,000, has been most successful in the devel- 
opment and application of electric light for practical illumination. The company manufactures 
complete systems of arc and incandescent lighting, believing that there is a separate field for 
each — the arc being used for illuminating large spaces, especially for streets where a general 
illumination and great amount of light is required, and the incandescent being better adapted 
for in-door detail illumination, although it may also be used for street lighting. 

Subsequently to the organization of the Elecric Light Company another branch of the 
business was inaugurated, the American Carbon Co., of which Mr. Heisler is Managing 
Director, and in which enterprise he is associated with G. W. Allen, President, and John 
E. Mulford, Secretary and Treasurer. This is the only successful company of the kind ia 
St. Louis, and almost three-fourths of its product goes to New York. The product is 
adapted to the various systems of electric lighting; and in the East, where so largely sold, 
the carbons are regarded as so superior that they command a very much higher price than is 
generally obtained for such wares. 

A few months ago still another corporation was formed, with ample resources, under the 
name of the St. Louis Illuminating Company, and the presidency of W. R Allen, for the 
purpose of furnishing electric light from central stations. This new system, developed by 
Mr. Heisler, the electrician of the company, can be transmitted over great distances on a 
moderately sized wire from a central station. In calling the attention of companies and 
parties contemplating the purchase of Lighting Plants to the entirely new principle, the com- 
pany sets forth its manifold advantages, and shows this to be the only practical method for 
distance incandescent lighting, on wires only costing from $50 to Si 00 per mile on a single 
circuit, with lamps of thirty candle power, or sixt^' candle power on the same circuit. Other 
advantages are set forth in a pamphlet, mailed free on application. From a plant in operation 
at the works, thus employed as a central station, Tony Faust's restaurant, over half a mile 
distant, is supplied with light, and. as Mr. Faust says, " producing a very brilliant light; a 
wonderful improvement over anything in the same line ever before seen." Many of the 
largest manufactnring industries of St. Louis, as well as the leading hotels, theatres, railways, 
'iver steamers,' in St. Louis and othf r of the chief cities of the West and South, certify to the 
superiority of the systems and w?res of these corporations. The St. Louis offices and works 
smplov forty hands. They are at S39 to Sry Soalh Seveotb street, \ coir prehensive Tier 
.i them is given on the opposite pagCi 



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THE INDUSTRIES Ol" ST. LOUIS. 



MEYBERG & ROTHSCHILD BROS. 

^laniifacturcrs of Hats, Caps and Straw Goods, and Dealers in Furs, Gloves and Umbrellas: Xos, 

401 and 403 North IJroadwav. 




This well-known and popular house, founded in 1856, is to-day recognized as one of 
the leaders in the Hat, Cap and Glove trade of America. During the past thirty years they 
hr.ve gradually increased their trade, until now their business extends throughout twenty 
States and Territories. No house in this line of business carries a more comjilcte stock, and 
none more fully commands the confidence of all with whom it has dealings, the careful 
attention of the firm to the requirements of the trade having produced most satisfactory 
results. The j^resent location, 401 and 403 Nurth Broadway, as shown in the accompany- 
ing illustration, is most admirably adapted to their extensive business, comprising five floors 
and basement, covering a surface area equal to more than half an acre. They are ably repre- 
sented before the trade of the West and South by a corps of active and reliable salesmen, 
through whose energy the firm are constantly increasing their already vast business. Messrs. 
J. Meyberg, A. Rothschild and Julius Rothschild compose the firm; rl crcrgctic and 
experienced business men. 

THE MISSOURI TINWARE CO. 

Pieced, St:ui)piil and Japanned Wari; ; 2iy Xorth Second Slrccl. 
This establishment, doing an extensive business at 219 North Second Street, occupies a 
very important relation to the manufacturing industries of St. Louis. They handle every- 
thing in the line of manufactured tinware, and their goods are all so perfect in make and 
finish t':at every article leaving the house is guaranteed. Utilizing the latest patent niachin- 



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cry a:i 1 apparatus, the establishment turns out wares neat, clean, showy and durable. So 
extensive are the facilities that the house can till all orders for all kinds of tinware promptly. 
The territory covered by the house in its sales is co-extensive with the trade limits tribu- 
tary to St. Louis, and sometimes extends beyond them. The house regularly issues a 
monthly price current, and distributes over 40,000 copies of each issue. This publication is 
uf great value to the trade, and, besides reviewing the state of (he market at date of issues, 
i^ives the ruling quotations and values in tinware. An illustrated catalogue is also issued to 
jiatrons and dealers on application. The management of the house is an energetic and 
enterprising one, and its prosperity is well merited. 

KINGMAN & CO. 

Wholesale Farni Machinery; 200 and 202 Soulh Eighth Street. 

Kingman & Co. is a corporation organized un- 
,^s:_ der the Illinois statutes, with headquarters in 

Peoria in that State. A branch has been established 
in St. Louis for about two years, with IL G. Ellis 
as Manager. 

Kingman & Co.'s is one of the most noted 
of the distributing agencies for the West and South 
maintained by manufacturers of farming machinery. 
They are agents for and stockholders in the cele- 
brated Moline Plow Company (Mr. Kingman being 
Vice-President of that corporation), are general 
agents for Russell & Co. of Massillon, Ohio; for the 
Stoddard Manufacturing Company of Dayton, Ohio; 
J F. Seiberling & Co., Akron, Ohio; Fish & Olds, 
Wagons, Foit Wayne, Ind.; Marseilles Manufactur- 
ing Co., Marseilles, 111.; Vandivier Corn Planter 
Co., Quincy, 111.; Odell Check Rower Co., Odell, 
111 ; Eureka Mower Co., Utica, New York; 
O'Brien Spring Wagons, of TiFfin, Ohio, and nu- 
merous other agencies. The St. Louis branch has all 
these agencies for the Southwest, and as this is the 
distributing centre for an agricultural district un- 
iivaled in territorial extent and in fertility, the St. 
Louis houses do a very extensive business in farm 
machinery. Indeed, so large a trade has of late 
years been developed in this line, that in many cases 
the branch houses here have fairly outstripped the 
tiansactions of the parent establishment. The farm 
Ss>T machinery dealt in by Kingman & Co. is everywhere 
lecognized as of very superior make and adapt- 
abdity. 
Mr. Kingman was Treasurer of the Illinois Canal Board under Gov. Cullom's ad- 
listration, and is now President of the Central National Bank of Peoria. 




MAWDSLEY & MEPHAM. 

Dealers in Chandeliers and Gas Fixtures, Plumbers and Stcnni Pipe Fitters: 1 13 and 1 15 North Sixth 

Street. 

This is one of the older firms in St. Louis, and has always been a leading house in its 
line. It was established aliout forty years ago by M. Ashdown, who died in 1S49. His 
widow continued the business for a time and was succeeded by her son, the firm becoming 
Wm. Ashdown & Co., and both members of the present house were early connected with 
the enterprise. Wm. Ashdown, however, went to Peoria, 111., to erect gas works and also 
engaged in manufacturing boilers there, so the St. Louis establishment continued to be 
cnrried on by the resident partners, who in 1853 assumed the present style of firm — Mawds- 
ley & Mepham. 

The house does a very large city business, and steam-fitting to a considerable extent in 
other localities. Under M. Ashdown's direction the first gas works in St. Louis were 
erected; indeed, he came to this city from Philadelphia especially to put up the works for 
the St. Louis Gas Light Com;iauy. The ma-^nificent street illumination last fall that attracted 
the attention of the world to St. Louis, was the work of Mawdsley & Mepham, who put up 



196 THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 

the several miles of piping and lights, employing 150 skil'e-1 woikmen for three weeks in 
the accomplishment of that grand triumph. The lirm also <lid the gas-litting for the Expo- 
sition, and have been connected with every public enterprise in the illuminatui.T line in this 
city. Pope's Theatre, the Gay building, the new church on Delmar avenue, and the hotel at 
Sweet Springs also furnish evidences of the skill of this house in gas and steam-fitting. 

The premises of the firm at 113 and 115 on North Sixth street are 30x170 feet, and thev 
occupy the basement and first floor in the usual conduct of the business, but in occasional 
emergencies, as last year, have been obliged to temporarily lease large storing room in other 
quarters. Mr. Mepham has two sons engaged in the business, and the firm usually employs 
thirty men. The partners — E. Mawdsley and H. Mepham — are practical and experienced 
men themselves, and their energy and enterprise have won for them deserved success in bus- 
iness. 

MOUND CITY MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY 

OF ST. LOUIS. 

Ellis N. Leeds, President; Chas. H. Alexander, Secretary ; \Vm. Booth, Vice-President; Southwest 

Corner of Sixth and Olive Streets. 

This company was organized in 1855, and confines its business to the city and county of 
St. Louis. Besides the above-named officers, it has for directors several leading business 
men of the city, among whom are Daniel R. Garrison, Mathias Dougherty, Francis L. Hay- 
del, John Maguire, Chas. Hofman, Augustus Pullis and Joseph T. Donovan. Wni. H. 
Roberts, an expert underwriter, is the general agent, and policies are issued from thirty days 
to six years. 

The company last year wrote risks to the amount of $1,500,000. Its excellent financial 
condition is attested by the report of the State Insurance Commissioner, from which it ap- 
pears that on January 1st, 1885, the company had available assets, $202,909.25; liabilities, 
$138,053.24; surplus, $64,856.01. It is economically managed, and safely. 

F. B. CHAMBERLAIN & CO. 

Commission Merchants for the Sale ot Flour, Cheese, Butler, Grass Seeds, etc., and Wholesale Dealers 
in Gunpowder and Safety Fuse ; 105 and 107 North Second Street. 

Mr. F. B. Chamberlain is one of the pioneer merchants of this vicinity. He first be- 
gan to operate in the commission line so far back as 1848, and was for many years located 
next door to his present situation. Those whose acquaintance runs back to 1854, will recol- 
lect his establishment at Pine and Second streets. He has beeii at 105 and 107 North Sec- 
ond street since 1882. Mr. W. F. Chamberlain, the junior member of the firm, is F. B's 
son. He has had several years experience as a principal of the house, and is an efficient 
manager. 

The trade of this house is largely local, but it has dealings in its specialty, gunpowder 
and safety fuse, with nearly all the Western country. The age of the house indicates its 
stability. Its representations are to be relied on. Commission services performed by it are 
bound to be satisfactory. 

J. H. KRACKE & CO. 

Commission Merchants: 201 and 202 North Levee. 

The experience and business qualifications displayed by Mr. J. H. Kracke since his 
establishment here in the commission line were gained by service with his father, who was a 
prominent merchant of Charleston, S. C. Mr. Kracke (Jr.) began to operate here first in 
1880. In the beginning he had for a partner L. J. Silva, but since January, '84 he has been 
the sole proprietor of the house at 201 and 202 North Levee. Mr. Kracke makes a specialty 
of the hay and grain lines. He confines his efforts to the filling of Southern orders, finding 
in that direction sufficient scope and a fair field. From his long residence in that section ot 
the Union he is thoroughly and intimately acquainted with the demands and wants of dealers 
there, and can always satisfy purchasers. At present he employs about 15 men, whose com- 
pensation is all of $1,500 per month. His business is very large, and is rapidly expand- 
ing. Altogether, upon a review of his progress during the four years he has been engage d 
n trade here, he has every reason to be gratified with what he has accomplished, and with 
;he prospect that appears therefrom. 



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I. B. DAVIS & SON, OF HARTFORD, CONN. 

Manufacturers of Berryman's Patent Feed-Water Heater and Pumping- Machinery ; R. M. de Aroza- 
ren.i, Manager, M. E. : Sii North Second Street. 

I. B. Davis & Son are manufacturers, of Hartford, Conn., who 
have branch houses, besides that here, at Chicago, New York, Phila- 
delphia and Boston. The St. Louis house was established only re- 
cently, Mr, R. M. de Arozarena, a mechanical engineer, taking 
charge of it in May last. 

I. B. Davis & Son manufacture the celebrated Berryman Feed- 
Water Heater and po.ver and steam pumping machinery. There are 
7,000 of the Berryman Patent Feed-Water Heaters in use; and that 
they are undoubtedly the best apparatus of the sort in use, re- 
peated experiments have conclusively demonstrated They have never 
been known to require repairs, and heat the feed water to 210° and 
211° Fahr., purifying the same so as to free it of all impurities. The 
tubes being of brass, they do not coat over with scales, and thus main- 
tain this high degree of temperature. 

Under the experienced direction of the resident manager, the 
trade in these heaters, the merits of which are rather understated than 
exaggerated, will doubtless very largely extend through the Southwest 
and South. The advantages of St. Louis as a distributing centre be- 
ing sagaciously considered and availed of by the firm, no other result 
^9 can be expected than the upbuilding of a large trade from this point. 
Of late years many leading Eastern manufacturers have found it an 
advantage to open Western branch houses, dealing direct with patrons, 
and doubtless the experience of Messrs. L B. Davis & Son, whose 
wares are already so well and favorably known in our Western and 
Southern indiistrial circles, will prove no exception. Mr. de Aroza- 
' rena will be pleased to personally explain their merits and treat 
with intending jjurchasers in all parts of the Western and Southern 
country. Circulars and catalogues promptly sent on application. 

A. J. JORDAN. 

Importer and Wholesale Dealer in Cutlery; 612 Washington Avenue, and 613 St. Charles Street. 

The only house in this part of the country that confines itself strictly to the cutlery trade, 
is that which is herein described. The establishment dates from the year 1871. It has a 
widespread patronage, credits upon its books showing dealings with the whole Western 
country, so far away indeed as with the Pacific Coast. The specialties of its trade are the 
general line of fine goods in table and pocket cutlery. 

Mr. Jordan carries a complete line of domestic and foreign wares, from the finest, which 
are retailed at $10 for a single piece, to those which are jobbed at forty cents a dozen. He 
has undoubtedly the largest, most varied and fullest stock in the city. Having dropped all 
other lines and given especial attention to cutlery, he has acquired connections with manu- 
facturers in Europe, whom he visits regularly, that enable him to market his goods at prices 
absolutely beyond local rivalry, because he buys from first hands. 

CHARLES BOERCKER. 

Moslers's Pitent Cincinnati Safes : 10 North Third Street. 

From a small beginning in 1861, by steady and persevering effort, but at the same time 
V. !th encouraging progress, Mr. Charles Boercker has accomplished what many others in the 
mean time failed in, viz.: the establishment of a reputable and paying business; for it 
must be remarked that the proportion of those tradesmen who remain in business for a quar- 
ter of a century always in the same line is small indeed. Such, however, has been Mr. 
Boercker's fortune, a result, it must be admitted, which is due to perseverance and good 
management. Safes of Boercker's manufacture are to be found all over this section, their 
superiority having been demononstrated long ago. But besides his own make, he sells those 
of the Mosler Safe and Lock Company, whose solid bolts and corners, and inside bolts and 
locks, assure an additional security. Second-hand safes can always be got at No. 10 North 
Third street. The changing and repan-ing of combination locks is also a specialty ot Mr. 
Boercker's concern. 



198 



THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 



SCHAFER, SWARTS & CO. 



Wliolcsalc Hoou a>ul Shoes, Exclusively for Cash ; Roston. 3 High Street; St. Louis, 4a, and 40S 
-North Fifth Street; Factory, S26 North Fourth Street. 

Although business has been done here but two years by this house, it already takes a 
position in the market with the foremost houses of its line. Up to May 21st of this year, 
this house had received from Boston 7,973 cases of boots and shoes. These figures are from 
the S/ioc and Lcatlicr Reporter, of New York, and do not include purchases made by this 
house from Massachusetts manufacturers outside of Boston. Additional storeroom has but 
recently been added to the premises occujiied by this house, the better to satisfy its expand- 
ing trade, wliich comes to it mostly from the West and Southwest. 

The employes of this house number 37, of whom 16 are travelers. The house deals in 
the general line of goods; jobbing some and manufacturing the rest that it sells. Witii a 
business reaching now the sum of $1,000,000 annual) v, it may safelv be said that, outside 
of one other house, it is entitled to rank at the liead of the list, not only because of the vol- 
ume of Its business, but because of its speedy and spirited conduct. 

The princii)als in this house are John II. Schafer, Morris Friedman, Chas. L. Swarts, 
J. J. Wertheimer and Geo. W. Milius. 

P. C. MURPHY. 

.Manufacturer of ami Wholesale Dealer in Trunks and Traveling Goods: 504 and 506 North Tl-.ird 

Street. 

.-V factory like this, employing 100 men and turning out goods to the value of $200,000 
yearly, certainly has claims to recognition in a work like this, which professes to record the 
industries of St. Louis in the year 1865. This concern was founded, by the gentleman who 
still manages its affairs, in i860. The business has had a steadv, natural and healthful 
growth since, and has shared in the general prosperity of this communitv. Its expansion is 
a tirst-rate dlustration of what good management can accomplish. Mr.'Murphv began in a 
moderate way, and by thrift and industry is now master of a tine business, and the possessor 
of a pretty fair competence. 

For about two years before his present factory was built, Mr. Murphv was in business 
elsewhere, but for the last twenty-two years he has occupied that one situa'tion. He erectetl 
for his own use the building at 504 and 500 North Third street, in March, iSSi, since which 
time he has been occupying it for ottices and salesrooms. A year later, he also built, out of 
the profits of his establishment, the tine building at the corner of Third and Vine streets, 
now occupied by the St. Louis Type Foundry and bv Bradstreet's Commercial Agency; so 
that It may be seen that he knows how to handle the'fruits of his prosperity. 

Murphy's trunk factory is run under the supervision of Mr. Fassett. He attends to all 
the manulacturing details, leaving his principal free to supervise the details of a trade that 
covers about all the territory west of the Mississippi, and particularlv in the Southwest. The 
s,>ecial niaiuifactures of this concern are sample trunks and satchels, but the whole range 
o! travelers' outfits are made to order and lor tiie markets juvt mentioned. 

GRANBY MINING AND SMELTING CO. 

Ldgar r. Welles, President ; Soun Huniphrcv, of Xew York, Vice-President : A. G. Trevor, Secretan- ; 

Miners and Smelters of Lead and Zinc; Mines at Jnplin, Granby, and Oronogo, Mo., and 

Furnace at Pittsburg, Kansas: Office, 417 Ol.ve Street. 

This extensive enterprise was incorporated in 1S65, with a capital of $2,000,000, non- 
assessable. The company has 5,000 acres of land at Granby, Mo., an equal amount in 
Jasper County, and 2,500 acres in Morgan County, Mo., as well as works and forty acres of 
land at Pittsburg, Kansas. There are mines and smelting works at Granbv, the same at 
Joplin;_ mines and dressing works for mineral at Oronogo, all in this State, and at Pitts- 
burg, Kansas, the company has a furnace for smelting zinc ore. 

■The product of the mines is sold all over the country, mostly in the Northern States, 
while the lead is sold mostly in St. Louis to corroders. 'Manufacturers also sav this lead 
makes the best shot of any in use. In working the mines, the plan of the company is to 
give to the miners a certain amount of laiul to work, and then to jiurchase from them what- 
ever mineral they may mine. At the smelting works at the mines but few m en are emploved 
while smelting, but a much larger force is employed at the smelting works at Pittsburg. This 
company has done much to develop the mining interests of Missouri, which are far more ex- 
tensive than is jiopularly supposed. The gentlemen couiiCCted with this company are men of 
lar';c means and niucii tnieiprise. 



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199 




tlilion to thus renovating clothing for in- 
lals, there is an extensive c.nnmei- 



LUNGSTRAS DYEING AND CLEANING CO. 

Eufjcne Liing^siras, President and Treasurer; Clias. Springe, Seiretarv : Works, Office and Store, 1300 
to 1510, and 131610 1318 Park Avenue; City Branch Store, 210 North Sixth Street. 

In this establishment, founded in 1872 by Eugene Lungstras, and incorporated under its 
]iiesent name ten years later, St. Louis has the largest, and by far the most successful cnter- 
jiiise of the kin<\ West of New York City. To the uninitiated in metropolitan life, it may 

appear singular that jiracticaliy r.n cn'.ire 
block of buildings should be devoied to 

the business of dyeing and Cieaninj;. 

^f"'^ But it should be remembered that in a(.- 
^ ^ diiion I 
^'^4 dividuE 

i sill'iLillr cial tlemand for the dyeing and cleaning 
jf goods in the piece and other wares 
uncut and unworn. Indeed this com- 
pany does a very large business in dye- 
ing and cleaning for merchants in S;. 
Louis, and throughout the North, West 
and South. 

The history of this company is one 
of much interest. President Lungstras 
was formerly of Sedaba, but, desiring a 
larger field for his enterprise, came to .St. 
Louis in 1871, and engaged in tlie dye- 
ing business upon a moderate scale; but the trade so increased that he was obliged m 18S2, 
and annually since, to greatlyincrease his facilities by additional buildings, and even iiuw is 
constructing an additional and larger dye-house. In 1882 the corporation was formed, the 
founder, Eugene Lungstras, being chosen President, and Chas. Springe, Secretary. Both 
gentlemen have much practical experience in this line. The company's present works cover 
200x150 feet of ground, are bounded by three streets; and the buildings are two and three 
stories high. The location is an eligible one, but it was nevertheless found necessary to open 
a down town store, at 210 North Sixth street, for the convenience of customers, and at the 
same time five teams are constantly employed in delivering goods to city patrons. At the 
works are one boiler and a 75-horse power engine, the largest power of any like factory 
West of New York. Fifty skilled hands are employed. All cleaning is done without rip- 
ping apart of goods, and several new processes of renovating are especially employed by the 
company, as in carpets, and the cleaning of feathers by steam. Repairing of garments is 
promptly done. Among the specialties of the company is the cleaning and re-carding of 
wool blankets. The increase of facilities is due to the very extensive patronage of the com- 
pany, and to the enterprising character of the business exertions of President Lungstras and 
Secretary Springe. 

ALDEN & BRO. 

The Alden KruiL Vinegar : looi North Levee, St. Louis ; Washington and Ciarkson Streets, New Voi k. 

This house is very generally admitted to be the largest of its kind in the world. The 
Alden Fruit Vinegar works are said to have invested in them a greater capital than any sim- 
ilar concern in America. The company employs here 120 men, and has transactions yearly 
amounting to $1,000,000. It has trade in every State and Territory of the United States 
except two, and as the representative of this important industry is given space in this pub- 
lication. 

MAX. JUDD & CO. 

Cloak Manufacturers : Salesrooms, 710 and 712 Washington Avenue ; Factory, 711 and 713 St. Charles 

Street. 

This house is probably better known to the world of trade than any other in the same 
line of industry in the West. Established about twelve years since, it has constantly grown 
in trade favor, and its goods have been met with like acceptance by wearers of cloaks every- 
where. 

Max. and I.I. Judd cumjjose the firm, and were the founders of the house. The prem- 
ises are 50x75 feet, and include four stories and basement. In the manufacturing of ladies' 
and children's cloaks, about 300 hands, chiefly girls and men-tailors, are employed, and in. 



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THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 



the salesrooms about fourteen men, including eight travelers, who are frequently " on the 
road.'" This firm confines its operations to the manufacture of ladies' and children's cloaks, 
and their productions are mainly sold in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Missouri, 
Kansas, Colorado, Utah, California, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, which 
States their representatives visit twice in each year. The business of this house has ex- 
panded from sales the first year of $io,CK)0 worth of goods, to yearly transactions now 
''»gS''t"j;''»ti"g nearly half a million, and the traffic is growing constantly. 

JOHN MEIER. 

M:iriiifacturcr of Men's and Boys' Boots and Shoes: 416 and 41S Liic;is Avenue near Fifth Street. 

Beginning as a retail dealer, in 1868, 
Mr. John Meier had prospered so that by 
1875 he was a wholesaler and manufacturer. 
The business has been a success from the 
start — indeed, it is said in tratle circles that 
John Meier's name is a synonym for success — 
notwithstanding that, the proprietor's re- 
sources were limited in the start, and his 
capital insignificant. This would seem to 
argue rather better business management 
than the average. The annual business of 
the house now is $250,000. There are loo 
to 120 employes, according as the times are 
brisk or dull, and four travelers on the road. 
The pay-roll of the house runs up to $1,100 
weekly, no small item of itself. Most of the 
out-of-town trade of the es'tablishment is 
in the Western and Southern country. Mr. 
Meier is himself a practical workman, and 
exercises personal supervision over every 
detail of the work at his factory. 

Recognizing the princii^le that employes, 
like employers, need relaxation from labo- 
rious tasks and deserve recreation, Mr. 
Meier gives his operatives a river excursion 
and pic nic annually, and these are occasions 
of much enjoyment among all parties participating; as well as exhibiting, in a most practical 
and pleasant way, the -eciprocal relations that should exist between employers and the 
employed. 




MISSOURI STATE MUTUAL FIRE AND MARINE 
INSURANCE COMPANY. 

1'. 15. Home.-., President; W. F. Homes, Secretary: Office, 712 Chestnut Street. 

This is the oldest Mutual Insurance Company in St. Louis, having been established in 
1S49, with that expert underwriter, F. B. Homes, now President of the corporation, as its 
Secretary and General Manager. And to this day it numbers among its Directors so-.r.e of 
the best known and most opulent of St. Louis business men and ca])italists, such as Geo. S. 
Edgell, identitied with the iron and the asphaltum manufacturing industries of the city; J. B. 
C. Lucas, prominent in the real estate line; B.W.Alexander, cajiitalist; Adolphus M^ier, 
of A. Meier & Co.; Augustus Neilderhut, of the Nedderhut Warehouse Co.; James K. 
Kainic, of J. E. Kaime & Bro.; F. B. Homes, President; Carlos S. Greeley, President ot 
the (ireeley-Btirnham Grocery Co.; and Wm. A. Hargadine, of Crow, Hargadine & Co. 

So conservatively anil well is the company managed that its losses last year aggregated 
only $4,404.85, while in the same period it wrote risks amounting to $1,501,915.00. Tlie 
assets of the conii)any on January 1st, 1885, as appears from official report of the State In- 
surance Superintendent, were $266,134.92; its liabilities, $160,209.90; thus showing a not 
sur]ilus of $105,925.02. Policies are written on either the stock or mutual plan, and lou 
rates are given on dwellings and household goods. President F. B. Homes, who came here 
early in the forties, from Boston, has hail nearly fortyyears experiencein this line. His son, 
."secretary W. F. Homes, hus grown up from bovhood in the business, and J. A. Baunigart- 
ner, tlie agent, is very competent and experienced in insurance underwriting; nor.e more so. 



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FRANCIS WHITTAKER & SONS. 

Packers and Provision Merchants; Specialty, Star Sugar-Cured Hams: Corner Seventh and Can- 
Streets and East St. Louis. 

The Star hams made the Whittaker establishment famous many years ago. Begun upon 
a most moderate scale in 1848, by Francis Whittaker, with but two or three employes, the 
house now employs 750 men here and in East St. Louis. 

This is the greatest house of the kind in 
St. Louis. After thirty-seven years expe- 
rience, packing has been reduced to the 
finest system by its management, so that now 
the enormous number of 300,000 hogs are 
disposed of through its instrumentality, and 
their carcases turned into food products. 
Some of the machinery in use at these works 
is of itself a study. 

All the slaughtering and curing is done 
by this house at its East St. Louis quarters, 
removal having been made to that location 
some time since because of objection to so 
large an establishment in the heart of a great 
city. The city business — banking, office, etc. 
-is done from this side of the river. The 
men are all paid here, and as most of them 
live in St. Louis proper, a special train car- 
ries them across from the East St. Louis 
works, which, by the way, cover thirteen 
acres of ground. 

The founder of this house, Francis Whittaker, died in 1871. The firm name has been 
Francis Whittaker & Sons since 1854. Messrs. John Whittaker and Michael McEnnis have 
been the principals in the concern since the failing health of Mr. Whittaker Sr., necessitated 
a change of management. Mr. John Whittaker divides with Mr. McEnnis the cares of 
office management, and oversees the East St. Louis concerns of the house. He is a well- 
known citizen, as much because of a genial and whole-souled disposition, unaffected by 
prosperity, as because of capital, resources and investments. He is a director of the Bank 
of Commerce and one of its largest stockholders. He has a large interest, too, in the Boat- 
men's Bank and also in the Mississippi Valley Transportation Company. He is a native of 
Dublin, but coming here when but a child, and bred to the vocation in which he now is, by 
his father, is thoroughly identified with the city of St. Louis by property and_ other ties. 
His father was an intensely practical man, and he gave his son an exhaustive training right 
inside the works. 

As has been said, Mr. McEnnis acquired his interest in 1870, when Mr. Francis Whit- 
taker's health began to fail and one of the sons had died. Mr. McEnnis is a resident of 
St. Louis since 1837. He has been a prominent business man ever since he came here, and 
has been sufficiently esteemed in the business community to have been chosen as President 
of the Merchants Exchange. It was he, also, who presided over the Mississippi River 
Improvement Convention. He is a genial gentleman and a clever business manager. 

In asserting that this house has a world-wide trade there is not the slightest exaggera- 
tion. In fact, of late years its export trade is most important. Its special manufactures are 
pure lard and the Star hams. 



house now employs 750 men here and in East Si 



J. G. BRANDT. 

Boots and Shoes : Southwest Corner of Fifth and Christy Avenue. 

The handsome premises just entered upon by this establishment have been much re- 
marked of late as the most convenient for their purpose of any in St. Louis. Mr. Brandt's 
house is certainly one of the largest retailing houses in America. On its first floor is the 
sales department, ventilated in novel fashion by transoms and glass lights running the whole 
length of the store. The third and fourth floors are occupied by the house for reserved stock. 

Mr. Brandt has been in the shoe business twenty-two years, sixteen years of which have 
been spent in building up the large establishment he has just opened. He is thoroughly up 
in the trade, and has that rare bargaining faculty by which he purchases at prices that en- 
able him to sell to his customers "at ground floor rates." As an indication of the busipess 
■done by him, it may be mentioned that he has forty employes engaged on his premises. 



202 THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 

THE KOPPELMAN FURNITURE CO. 

Manufacturers of Furniture: Salesrooms, 814 and 8i6 North Broadway, between Morgan and Franklin 
Avenue; Factory, 2218 to 2230 Warren Street. 

The founder of this house, J. H. Koppelman, died in 1869. Mr. J. G. Koppelman, 
President of the stock company, is his nephew. The elder Koppelman founded the estab- 
lishment in 1842. The incorporation is of the year 1877. The house is one of the most 
important in the furniture trade of St. Louis. The factory works 40 to 50 hands, who draw 
$500 or $600 in wages weekly. The annual business in the city, and with customers in 
the West and South, is about $175,000. No special line of manufacture is pursued, the 
endeavor being to keep up with the market for furniture of all grades, styles and descrip- 
tions. Mr. John D. Stegeman is the Secretary of this company. 

TRASK FISH COMPANY. 

Rich & Co., J. M. Dutro, Proctor, Geenwood & Co., I. R. Trask & Co., Consolidated; Established 
1855, Incorporated 1S7S; I.R. Trask, President; Ocean and Lake Fish : 523 North Second Street. 

The consolidation of four large firms and the incorporation of their combined interests 
under the name heading this account was effected in 1878. A company of unusual capital 
and resources was thus organized. These firms were Rich & Co., J. M. Dutro, Proctor, 
Greenwood & Co., and I. R. Trask & Co., the former of whom had been established so long 
ago as 1855. 

The new company was started with a capital stock of $50,000. Its annual trade cannot 
be much short of a quarter of a million dollars. The transactions are mostly in brands of 
the company's own preparation and packing. The bulk of the Trask company's stock is 
carried in warehouse, awaiting disposition to the trade of the Northwest, West and South- 
west. The store and office building, at 523 North Second street, not being half large 
enough for storage room, some 6,000 packages are now in warehouse. About 20 employes 
are busily engaged in caring for this stock and in looking after the demands of patrons. The 
house has five travelers in its service. All the wholesale grocers of the territory just men- 
tioned handle Trask's goods, and orders may be directed to them or to the company as may 
be most convenient. Amongst other of th" rnmnnny's hraml* t!> >! have brt-n appruvt-.: :.v 
popular demand, may be mentioned: 

Trask's selected shore mackerel, in barrels, halves and pails, now so much sought for 
that imitations have been marketed. They may be retailed at five cents each or six for twenty- 
five cents. Trask's Georges one pound bricks, wrapped in wax paper so as to save grocer's 
waste; Trask's Cape Cod Turkey, selected from choicest Georges codfish middles, and cut 
in New York style. In mackerel and codfish especially the Trask company has made every 
effort to put up its goods so as to make them attractive and salable. 

As intimated in this account, this company is one of strength and resources, and is thus 
enabled to accommodate its patrons generously. 

THE GLOBE PICKLE CO. 

Armin Zott, President and Treasurer; Max Kuner, Vice-President; W. J. Blakely, Secretary: 701 and 
703 North Second Street— 1007 and 1009 North Second Street and 1004 to 1012 Collins Street. 

This company's exhibit at the New Orleans World's Exposition attracted much attention 
and favorable comment. The house is the greatest in its line hereabouts. From 1878, which 
is the year of its foundation, to 1882, that of its incorporation, it was run under the firm name 
of Zott & Kollmorgan. Two large manufacturing establishments are maintained in St. Louis, 
and one in Chicago, by this company, also salting works at Morton Station, Carlinville, 
Warsaw and Quincy, Ills., where are employed a great force preparing vegetables for pick- 
ling — in the busy season so many as 150 girls and 40 men. 

Besides these, six travelers for the house attend to the concerns of the company in the 
Northern, Southern and Western States. The trade extends to the westward so far as Cali- 
fornia and Oregon. The annual transactions are allot a half million dollars in amount. 
The specialties are pickles and vinegar, sweet cider, pigs' feet and kraut. The principals in 
the house are each thoroughly posted in all the details of the business, which enables the 
company to maintain a higher standard for its goods than if the direction of affairs was left 
to employes, however skillful they might be. The authorized capital of this company is 
$75,000, which large sum is an indication of the resources and financial strength of the par- 
ties interested in the Globe Pickle Company. 



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THE HOOKER-COLVILLE STEAM PUMP CO. 

\V. D. Hooker, formerly of San Francisco, President; Wm. C. Farrar, Secretary and Treasurer: 

Manufacturers of Compound Condensing^ Pumping- Engines for Water Works, Hot Liquor 

Pumps, Fire Pumps, Hand and Power Lift and Force Pumps, etc. ; iioi North 

Second otreet. 

Seventeen gold and silver medals have been awarded to the Hooker California pumps in 
impartial trials with other apparatus of the same sort. They are here called California 
pumps to distinguish them from those built elsewhere. Mr- Hooker first engaged in the man- 
ufacture of these 
pumps at San 
Francisco, with 
such success that 
now over 7,000 of 
them are in use 
on the Pacific 
Coast. Being de- 
sirous of a larger 
6eld for his en- 
terprise, and with 
the idea of intro- 
ducing his patent 
elsewhere, M r . 
Hooker sold out 
to the house of 
W. T. Garratt & 
Co., came to St. 
Louis in 18S2, and 
-legan the manu- 
facture at the lo- 
cation given in the 
headlines to this 

account, where he still is. The sale of these pumps is now sufficient to keep 50 men busy 
replacing the depleted stock. The works have facilities and room for 150, which number 
will be engaged so soon as the demand justifies it, which appears now to be near at hand. 
The annual production of the works, as they are, is nearly 500 pumps. Those now being 
manufactured have all the advantages of the California pump, with several other improve- 
ments recently patented by Mr. Hooker, who seems to be determined to reach perfection, if 
that be possible. His new outside valve movement, patented March 7th, 18S5, is one of the 
simplest and yet is the most durable valve gear yet invented. He has also patented a new 
method for packing plunger pumps, as remarkable for its durability as for the extreme cheap- 
ness it can be furnished for. 

That it is intended to carry on these works upon a scale of utility and profit is evident 
from the amount of the authorized capital of the incorporated company of which Mr. Hooker 
is President— $150,000. The pumps being manufactured range from a price fixed at $71; to 
$500 for those kept in stock, although pumps far more elaborate, powerful and costly maybe 
made to order, far exceeding these in value. There can be no sort of doubt as to the merits 
of these pumps, for they have been proven to be genuine, not alone by premium trials, but by 
every-day use in the.whole country from Georgia to Calfornia, and from Massachusetts to 
Mexico. 

RONAN BROS. 

Manufacturers of Fine Shoes: 1126 and 112S North Third Street. 
The Ronan Brothers, Wm., Thos., and Hugh, were in business from 1S76 to November 
of 1SS3, at which time they were bought out by the Hamilton-Brown Shoe Co. Mr. Hucrh 
Ronan was superintendent for that company. At the beginning of the present year the 
brothers resumed business upon their own account, and have since been prosperincr so that 
there is every evidence that the business will not fall far short of $100,000 for tliis year. 
They have now 40 hands employed on mens' fine work, and will presently, when their 
arrangements are completed for the manufacture of fine ladies' work, for which they have a 
demand, raise this force to 80 or loo. The Ronans are now shipping all over the West 
Southwest and South, and are doing a particularly good business wiTh Missouri, Kansasj 
Southern Illinois, Iowa and the South. They have this advantage over other concerns of the 
sort: the brothers are all experts, having been bred to the trade. 



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THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 



THE NONOTUCK SILK CO. 

Corticelli Spool Silk, etc. ; C. H. Sampson, Agent: 408 North Broadway. 

The foundation for this vast enterprise was really laid over half a century ago, although 
the industry did not take final and decisive shape until 1838; and it v/as yet some years until 
mechanical genius had perfected the process of manufacture of the now unrivalled Corticelli 
silk. This at once gave life to the industry, and birth to the village of Florence, Mass., 
where the first of the present vast chain of mills belonging to the comj^any was established. 
As the silks imjiroved in quality and public favor, the Western demand necessitated the 
establislinient of distributing centres. 

It was thus that St. Louis gained an important accession to its commercial houses, seven 
years ago, when Mr. C. II. Samj^son, the Western and Southern agent, established his 
headquarters here, and was also cliarged with supervision over offices of the company in Cin- 
cinnati and New Orleans. His energy and business ability, backed by the almost unlimited 




CORTICELLI SILK MILLS. 

resources of the company, and goods admitted to lie superior to any extant, soon told in the 
building up of a business worthy, in proportions and territorial extent, the oldest and most 
extensive silk mills in the world. Tributary to Mr. Sampson's agency, the trade has been so 
extended as to cover the South and Southwest, and from here eight salesmen are sent out. 
The St. Louis salesrooms are at 408 North Broadway now, having been removed from less 
commodious quarters. The present premises cover 30x125 feet of space, the first floor and 
basement being occupied as office and salesroom. The Nonotuck Silk Company own and 
control the Corticelli Silk Mills. Their principal productions are Corticelli Spool Silk, Spool 
and Skein Embroidery, Filoselle, Machine Twist, Sewings, Florence Knitting Silk, Silk 
Underwear, Silk Hosiery and Mittens. The St. Louis salesroom is located at 40S North 
Broadway. 

M. M. MYERS. 

Manufacturer anil Jobber of Youths' and Boys' Clothing : 624 and 626 Washington Avenue. 

About 150 hands are employed in manufacturing for this house, and the business in this 
section is sufficient to justify the retention of several travelers. Mr. Myers has been in this 
line since 1S79. He manufactures principally little children's fancy clothing, using the finer 
goods. The policy of his establishment is to bring out each season the newest and latest 
style, with the calculation to close out the entire stock by the end of the season, to make 
room for new goods; selling the old stock at a sacrifice rather than to carry it over. Busi- 
ness thus far this year has been up to the average, and the indications are that much new 
trade has been acquired. Liberal dealings and accommodating methods have characterized 
Mr. Meyer's house from the start. Hence its unbroken prosperity. 



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205 




STEIN^VENDER, STOFFREGEN & CO. 

Coffee Roasters, Spice Grinders and Manufacturers of Mustards and Ketchups : S05, S07 and S09 North 

Third Street. 

The building shown in the picture on this 
page is but a part of the premises occupied by 
this firm. More room being required to accommo- 
date the expanding business of the house, prep- 
arations are now being made to extend the prem- 
ises through to Fourth street, which improvement 
will add about seventy-five feet to the quarters 
that have been in use. This house now roasts on 
these premises about one hundred bags of coffee 
a day. The extension is being made so that this 
output can be increased to one hundred and 
twenty-five bags or more. For this purpose 
another cylinder is to be put in. Steinwender, 
Stoffregen & Co. are about the heaviest jobbers 
and dealers in teas and coffees in this market. 
They have been ten years doing business here, 
and the estimation in which they are held is best 
illustrated by the remarkable growth of their 
trade, which has been noticeable even in times of 
depression. The development of the house is 
due not only to its exceptional facilities for manu- 
facturing and pushing trade, but to the energy and 
enterprise of its proprietors. Their success is the 
reward of well directed effort to accomplish that 
end, and throughout a large extent of territory 
tributary to St. Louis the establishment is highly regarded in trade circles. 

LYNCH & COMPANY. 

Wholesale Liquors: 303 North Main Street. 

Representing the E. H.Taylor, jr., Co., of Frankfort, Ky., the W. S. Hume Distilling 
Company of Silver Creek, in the same State, the Burnham, Bennett Warwick Distillery of 
Madison County, and the J. S. Taylor Distillery in the Blue Grass region, as well as Barton 
& Guestier of Bordeaux, Delbeck & Co. of Reims, and Jules Robin & Co. of Cognac, France, 
this house has resources that make it a sterling one in the trade of this vicinity. It is an 
old establishment, having been opened first in 1862 by Patrick Lynch. At one time Mr. 
Lynch was associated with Chas. A. Mantz, ex-city collector, as Mantz & Lynch. They dis- 
solved thirteen years ago, and he has been operating alone since. 

The sales of this house are mainly to the local trade, but it has customers in all the 
Western States; like all the old houses of this vicinity, a trade peculiar to it and personal to 
its proprietor. One of its specialties is the Mission grape wine, which is used for Sacra- 
mental purposes by the churches. " Lynch & Co." is a house of high character; against it, 
in all the long years during which it has flourished, not the breath of a suspicion has been 
heard. Its management is a fine sample of that old-fashioned integrity ami courtesy so rare 
now-a-days. 

THE JORDAN FLORAL COMPANY. 

John M. Jordan, President: Wm. E. Davis, Secretary; Cut Flowers, Plants and Floral Decorations ; 
Greenhouses, Grand Avenue, North of Cass Avenue ; Office and Floral Store, 706 Olive Street. 

There is a language of flowers, and how that language is read can best be told by a 
scientific and practical nursery-man like J. M. Jordan, who is perhaps better acquainted 
with the beauties and characteristics of exotics than any florist, professional or amateur, in 

St. Louis. 

Since 1859, the founder of this exclusively cut flower and plant interest as a business, 
has been connected with these beauties of nature anil cultivation, and no man has done 
more to promote a cultured taste, in respect to floral decoration, for public and private pur- 
poses, than the President of the corporation bearing his name. Twenty-five years ago he 
devoted his attention exclusively to his nursery, but the force of crcumstances and a growing 



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demand for the flowers and plants among which he lived, compelled him to enlarge his 
sphere of usefulness and to establish a depot for the sale of his products. Thus was inau- 
gurated, on a modest scale, a business enterprise that has since developed into a large busi- 
ness industry, and continues to grow as culture and a desire for natural ornamentation in- 
crease. Mr. Wm. E. Davis grew up in the same atmosphere, and absorbed from his sur- 
roundings not only a liking for flowers, but a desire to promote the interests of the business. 
Hence, when in 1883 Mr. Jordan desired to still farther develop the enterprise and deter- 
mined to incorporate the establishment, his associate became a stockholder in the company 
and was chosen its Secretary. With President Jordan and Secretary Davis as executive 
officers, the affairs of the Jordan Flower Co. have prospered in an eminent degree, and its 
beautiful products now find their way into Missouri, Illinois, Kansas, Arkansas and other 
tributary territory, the cut flowers and plants and floral decorations adorning public and 
private receptions, social and scholastic occasions, and everywhere bringing fragrance and 
evoking tribute to the God of nature, and to the adept in arranging these exotics so as to 
present, in harmonious blending, their greatest beauties. 

Recognized in St. Louis, where the company is best known, the knowledge and ability 
of Mr. Jordan and his trained assistants are utilized upon all occasions where the skillful 
arrangement of flowers is a feature, with entire assurance of harmonious and artistic arrange- 
ment and of the genuineness and fresh condition of the flowers. The greenhouses of the 
company on Grand avenue are very extensive and complete, and the store, at 706 Olive 
street, is at all times a bower of beauty. Mr. Jordan has attained some distinction in the 
world of letters, as a recitationist and in knowledge of authors and authorship. He is a 
favorite in the literary and social circles of St. Louis. 

GREEN & CLARK. 

Manufacturers of and Wholesale Dealers in Missouri Cider and Vinegar : Office and Works, aooo to 

2010 Pine Street. 

Messrs. O. F. Green and J. E. Clark, who compose this enterprising firm, have devel- 
oped a very large and profitable industry in the manufacture of Missouri cider and vinegar, 
and the product of their works, is recognized throughout the trade as an article of great 
purity and general excellence. 

Starting in 1867, on Market street, in a small way, and occupying but a single floor, the 
establishment was removed subsequently to its present spacious quarters, and has so increased 
its manufacture that the fiim now has the largest cider making works in this city and State. 
The four-story building is used in its entirety: one of the large cellars for the storage of 
cider and having a capacity of 3,000 barrels, the other for vinegar in barrels and smaller 
packages. The first and other floors are used for barreling the product, washing, filling and 
storing the bottled product, and for sample rooms. The trade-mark " Missouri Cider " is a 
popular one throughout the South, Southeast and Southwest, where the product is so largely 
sold, and Green & Clark's fruit vinegar is highly esteemed in every household. The mem- 
bers of the firm, who are old residents, with a business experience of many years, are enter- 
prising and public spirited. They hold membership in the Merchants Exchange, and were 
promoters of the Exposition, in which they are stockholders. 

BARNES & HAYWARD. 

Short Hand, Telegraph and Business College: Arthur J. Barnes, Stenographer : W. T. Steward, 
Telegrapher; C. J. Hay ward, Accountant: 210 and 212 North Fourth Street, between 

Olive and Pine. 

Established in the Fall of 1882, this commercial academy has been most successfully 
conducted, and has impressed the public with a favorable opinion as to its usefulness. Says 
the Amerika, a leading German daily of St. Louis: "Mr. Barnes has gathered a rich ex- 
perience as a stenograper in our local court rooms, and understands, better than any other 
teacher in the city, how to give instruction in this branch. In fact, he may be pointed out as 
the only practical teacher of stenography in the entire West. Mr. Hayward has for many years 
practically conducted the Business College of Bryant & Stratton, and was known to nine-tenths 
of their scholars as the actual principal. He is a thorough and expert accountant. All his 
former scholars speak of him in the warmest praise. Mr. W. T. Steward, who has charge 
of the telegraph department, is one of the most thorough telegraphers in the Westt-rn Union. 
His scholars make wonderful progress." 

A special effort is made by these instructors to impart a practical commercial education, 
such as can be niade available at once, and a source of i:)rofit. Three years' conduct of this 
school have proven that its method and management are sufficient for that utilitarian purpose. 



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RIDDLE, REHBEIN & CO. 

Proprietors of the Mississippi Planing Mills; Manufacturers of Doors, Sash, lUinds and Packing 
Boxes: Corner of Thirteenth and O'Fallon Streets. 

The Planing Mills shown in this cut are among the oldest established in St. Louis, 
having been purchased by Ladd, Patrick & Co., from "Wade & Frost, in 1859. Riddle, 
Rehbein & Co. (Geo.T. Riddle and Chs. Rehbein) succeeded to the business in 1878. They 




employ 125 men, with an average weekly pay-roll of $1,600, and consumed during 1884 
over six million four hundred thousand feet of lumber. In their sash, door and blind de- 
partment they do not handle what is called " stock work," but devote themselves exclusively 
to the manufacture of the better class of ordered work, mostly for city use, where their 
reputation for furnishing well seasoned lumber and superior workmanship is well-known. 

Their box factory is the largest and contains the most complete set of machinery of any 
in the city; and while they have a large city trade, they also ship large quantities "cut out " 
to all parts of the country, their books this year showing shipments to parties in Texas, Col- 
orado, Nebraska, Missouri, Illinois, Louisiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania and New York. 

Mr. Riddle was born and raised in St. Louis, and has been continuously employed in 
the lumber business since 1865, while Mr, Rehbein has been connected with this one mill 
since 1859, both therefore having the experience necessary to properly understand the busi- 
ness and serve the interests of their customers. 

THE DOMESTIC SEWING MACHINE COMPANY OF 

NEW YORK. 

New York Office, Broadway and Fourteenth Street; St. Louis Branch House, 906 Olive Street; E. L. 

Greene, Manager. 

Few sewing machines have attained the extensive sale and great household popularity in 
the West secured by the "Domestic" within the last five years, and this is especially true 
of that part of the country supplied by the St. Louis Branch House of the company, which is 
managed by Mr. E. L. Greene, who came here from Chicago in 1880 — after ten years ex- 
perience there — to take charge of the interests of the company in the Southwest, or, more 
specifically, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee and Western 
Kentucky. The " Domestic " machine is made by the company bearing that name, a New 
York corporation having an immense factory at Newark, N. J., employing 1,400 skilled 
workmen. The machine, which is a triumph of mechanical genius in its simplicity, perfection 
of finish and durability, has among its special features its wood work and attachments, the 
former being a patent device by the company — bent-wood and no joints of any kind. The 
attachments are automatic and self-adjusting. Branch offices constituting the Western de- 
partment are located at Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, St. Louis and Kansas City. 
The St. Louis branch does only a wholesale business, which has grown very extensive under 
the energetic management of Mr. Greene, and sells to dealers exclusively. There are sub- 
branches in the city and throughout the territory which sell direct to households. 



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NATHAN CARD. 

Manulacturcrol all Modern Styles of Carna^'cs, Huggics, Phaetons, Surreys, etc.: 604 Market Street. 

Throughout St. Louis the name of Nathan Card is a household word. For thirty-five 

years lie has been known as a maker of carriages, buggies and other family vehicles, and 

no one has yet heard it said that he ever made an inferior one. Thoroughly acquainted 




with every possible detail of his business, he has always kept pace with the remarkable 
progress of this interest, and to-day turns out all the modern styles of carriages, buggies, 
phaetons, surreys, etc. — all not only handsomely made but well and thoroughly made. His 
specialties are the finest carriages, and for these he has a large city trade and the better class 
of the country trade. A merchant or banker from the interior visiting St. Louis to purchase 
a family vehicle, wdl, if he is thoroughly posted, prefer one of the best made kind, which 
are always cheapest in the end. These may always be found at Nathan Card's establisli- 
ment, 604 Market street. This store, 30x130 feet, is four stories i;i height, and he also has 
a store and warehouse at 18 South Sixth street, 25x100 feet, occupying the first floor and 
basement. During the busiest season about twenty-five men are employed at the establish- 
ment; at present a less number suffices. Yet trade is at all times fair, even in the duller 
portions of the season; for Mr. Card and his vehicles are well and favorably known every- 
where. 

L. P. MILLIGAN & CO. 

Manufacturer of Milligan's Apple CiJer, Pickles anil Kraut : 507 Xorlh Second Street. 
The Western and Southwestern trade is catered to by this concern, the proprietor of 
which was formerly Tresidcnt of the well-known Excelsior Vinegar and Pickle Works. The 
specialty of the establishment is Milligan's cider, pickles, and goods of that line being also 
handled in connection with the cider traffic. Although only in operation since August, 18S4, 
the house at 507 North Second street, assisted by Mr. Milligan's wide acquaintance, is 
shar]ily pushing some of its older competitors, and is ac(juiring a paying patronage. 

JONES, EDWARDS & CO. 

Successors lo George F. Tower & Co ; Wholesale Liquor Dealers and Importers of ]?randies, Gins and 

Wines ; 525 North Second Street. 

The principals in this house are Walter D. Jones, J. White Edwards, John Waddell, 
and John F. Carroll. Three years ago these gentlemen succeeded to the business of the old 
house of Geo. Tower & Co., which had been in the liquor trade here since 1S47, by purchas- 
ing Mr. Tower's interest. Messrs. Jones & Edwards had been partners with Tower, and so 
the reorganized establishment took the name at the head of this account. 

This house has been located in its present situation, at 525 North Second street, for a 
quarter of a century. From those unpretentious quarters, it has quietly and unostentatiously 
been conducting a trade in fine whiskeys and imported liquors, rivalletl in volume by hut few 
Concerns of its line. It has a most excellent jiatronage in the Northwestern and Southern 
country, and some considerable custom in Illinois. It is an old house, a strong house, and 
one whose conduct and management has always been unexceptionable. 



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THE BRINCKWIRTH-NOLKER BREWERY CO. 

Proprietors Lafayette Brewery; W. F. Nolker, President; Louis Brinckwirth, Secretary ; Corner of 
Eighteenth Street and Cas3 Avenue. 

The establishment of the old Lafayette Brewery on Carr street in 1S43, by Theodore 
Brinckwirth, was really the foundation of this enterprise, although the stock company was 
only incorporated in 1882. As may be imagined, the business on the start was insignificant; 




but it is far from that now, the brewery having a capacity equal to an output of 100,000 bar- 
rels of lager a year. All the latest improvements in the way of cold-air machines, etc., 
have been put into this company's plant. The largest casks in the city are on the premises. 
Some herehold i6obarrels. Storage vats holding 225 barrels are also a part of the equipment. 

Fifteen wagons are employed supplying the trade, and over seventy men are engaged. 
Mr. Nolker has lived here since 1873, and has been in the brewery trade all the while. He 
came from Cincinnati, where he had been in iron manufacturing. Mr. Brincl^wirth was born 
here, and was brought up to the business by his father, who was the founder of this brewery. 

The Brinckwirth-Nolker company makes all its own malt, and is regarded here as one 
of the principal establishments in its line. 

HERNSTEIN & PRINCE. 

Importers and Manufacturers of Surgical, Optical and Electrical Instruments, Surveyors' and Engineers* 
Supplies: 317 North Fourth Street. 

W. H. Hernstein and D. Prince, the principals in this house, were formerly members of 
the house of Aloe, Hernstein & Co., but since January of this year have been in copartner- 
ship at 317 North Fourth street, having retired on that date from the Aloe house, in which 
Mr. Prince was manager of the Optical, Mathematical and Engineering department, and Mr. 
Hernstein of tlie Surgical and Electrical division. From a circular issued by this house upon 
its establishment the following is extracted: 

"The Surgical and Electrical departments will be under the immediate and personal 
supervision of Mr. W. PI. Hernstein, whose eighteen years' exj^erience in these branches 
fully qualifies him for the task. Mr. Prince will give his individual attention to the Optical, 
Mathematical and Engineering Instrument branch of the business. His long connection 
and experience in this line is well-known to many of his former customers. 

" We will give particular and special attention to Orthopedic and Deformity work, our 
facilities for such being in every respect most thorough and complete. We also call the 
special attention of Oculists to our Spectacle and Eye Glass Department. It is complete in 
every detail; and having secured the most competent workmen, and experienced Glass 
Grinders, our facilities for the grinding of Com]i(nind Spherical, Cylindric and Prismatic 
Lenses are the very best. Oculists' prescriptions a speialty. All orders will receive our 
prompt attention. Prescription Blanks furnished on application." 

Hernstein & Prince are the St. Louis agents for the Portable Dynamo-Electric Lighter 
for lighting gas; also for Laval's Opera and Field Glasses; and for Tiemann & Co.'s Surgi- 
cal Instruments. They have some 25 employes in their service, and have been doing a most 
excellent business all through this season. 



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ADAM LANGE & CO. 

Manufacturers of Show Cases: 221 anj 233 North Second Street, Corner of Olive. 

The Lange Brothers began the manufacture of show cases in 1868. There is but one 
factory here older than theirs. The brothers dissolved in 1880. Mr. Adam Lange, who 

continues the business, is a man of ideas. 
He is the introducer and designer of all 
the new styles in show cases for the past 
fifteen years. He is the inventor of the 
round-front glass show case now in use 
all over the United States. He has also 
designed several other sorts that are 
equally popular. He is now supplying 
direct a trade that reaches from the West 
Indies and Mexico up into the Northwest. 
As a journeyman he was noted as a most 
= skillful artisan, and as a manager he is 
jnot less clever and painstaking. In bus- 
Mness affairs he is as apt and speedy as he 
has shown himself to be in mechanical 
pursuits. The advantage of dealing with him is that he can furnish original designs, whilst 
other manufacturers must follow the beaten track and are mere imitators of his work. 




H. W. KIRCHNER, A. H. KIRCHNER. 

Architects and Superintendents : Rooms 19 and 21 Real Estate Exchange. 

The architectural beauty of many of the public buildings, fine business houses and ele- 
gant residences of St, Louis is largely due to the cultivation of an improved taste in archi- 
tecture, of which Messrs. H. W. and A. H. Kirchner are leading exponents in the West. 

Some twenty or more of the principal public school buildings of the city were designed 
by the senior member of this well-known firm, when connected with the Board of Education 
as its architect. The new Cotton Exchange and Real Estate Exchange buildings were also 
designed by and erected under the supervision of this firm, as well as many other large and 
commodious edifices that attract public attention. The Messrs. Kirchner are members of the 
American Institute of Architects, and are held in great professional esteem and popular 
renown throughout the West and Southwest. 



H. M. BLOSSOM & CO, 

Fire and Marine Insurance; 210 Nortli Third Street. 

No insurance agency here is representative of sounder companies than the fit m which 
is described in this sketch, as the following lisl shows: The Imperial Fire Insurance Co;, 
of London; Commercial Union Assurance Co., of London; Phrenix Insurance Co., of 
Hartford; Connecticut Fire Insurance Co., of Hartford; St. Paul F. and M. Insurance Co., 
of St. Paul: Citizens' Insurance Co., of Pittsburg; Farmers' Insurance Co., of York; 
Boston Marine Insurance Co., of Boston; Phrenix Insurance Co., of New York (Marine) 
These companies are the strongest of the home and the safest of the foreign insurance cor- 
porations. The Imperial Fire, of London, is over one hundred years old, and is one of the 
greatest, if not the greatest, insurance companies of the world. It has assets in the United 
States amounting to $1,500,000, and its fire risks taken in Missouri during 1884 reached the 
sum of $2,500,000. The Phcenix, of Hartford, is the pioneer of the present agency system. 
It was established in 1854, and has a paid-up capital stock of $2,000,000, together with a 
surplus of $772,687.19. Its Missouri risks, in 18S4, were $7,290,349 in amount, the pre- 
miums received thereon being $101,031.23. It paid losses in this State during that year to 
the amount of $64,951.66. The other companies mentioned above are not less substantial. 

Mr. H. M. Blossom, senior member of the partnership, whose name graces this page, is a 
resident of this vicinity since 1S50. Before the war, he was clerk and part owner in the 
" Polar Star" and " Hiawatha," Missouri river boats. He retired from the river traffic in 
1861 to go into the insurance line. Mr. H. A. Blossom, H. M.'s nephew, is a native of St. 
Louis. He had had a wide mercantile experience beforehis venture in the insurance busi- 
ness, and had been bred to that line with other offices. He is a director in the Laclede 
Bank. Mr. II. M. Blossom is an officer of the Board of St. Louis Underwriters, and is 
prominent in all matters connected with his vocation. 



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THE DIAMOND JO LINE. 

St. Louis and St. Paul Passenger and FreightLine, Establi-hcd 1S67 ; General Office at Dubuque, Iowa; 

Joseph Reynolds, General Manager; St. Louis Office, Washington Avenue and Levee; 

Isaac P. Lusk, General Agent. 

The successful navigation of the Upper Mississippi is inseparably connected with the 
name of " Diamond Jo " Reynolds, after whom the line of steamers between St. Louis and 
St. Paul, founded by him, is called. In 1867 he commenced with but a single boat, which 
was employed by him in the produce trade of the Upper Mississippi, with headquarters at 
Dubuque, Iowa. 

From year to year the business, being managed with skill, increased, and now the line 
comprises six elegant steamers plying daily between St. Louis and St. Paul, and touching at 
way landings. These steamers, which have large capacity for freight carriage, and are also 
speedy, and combine every comfort and convenience for passengers, are the " Pittsburg." 
commanded by the veteran Capt. John Keline, with H. C. Lusk, a brother of the St Louis 
agent, as chie^ clerk; the "Mary Morton," Capt. Wm. Boland and chief clerk Ciias. 
Mather; the " Sidney," Capt. Jim Best and chief clerk Fulton; the " Libbie Conger," 
Capt. Jim Corbit, chief clerk "Garry" Spencer; the " Josephine," which plies between 
Dubuque and Fulton, Iowa, Capt. Ben. Conger and chief clerk Sim Wood; and the "Josie," 
which at the moment is laid up. All of these officers have an experience of years in the 
jteamboat service of the Mississippi. 

To the energy and ability of the resident agent, Isaac P. Lusk, the popularity of the 
line at this end of the route is largely due. Mr. Lusk has been connected with the line some 
ten years, and was a clerk on the river up to four years since. "Diamond jo" Reynolds, 
the General Manager at Dubuque, is a frequent visitor to St. Louis, and very popular in 
commercial circles. 

G. H. DONNEWALD & CO. 

Wholesale Dealers in Lebanon Coal: Mines at Leban( n Ills.; Office, 1913 Clark Avenue, and at 

O. & M. Depot, East St. Louis. 

G. H. and A. W. Donnewald, the members of this firm, are brothers. They were bred 
^o this line of business by their father. Their partnership dates from 1881, the year of A. 
W.'s arrival here, although the elder brother haa been doing business as a member oi the 
firm of Donnewald & Gurla, and Donnewald & Herring, from 1872. They operate mines at 
Lebanon, Ills., employing there from 50 to 100 men. They se!! here directly trom their side 
tracks, as well as from their yards. Their sales are mostly in the citVj but they also ship 
considerable to the west of this point. They handle six to eight thousand bushels of coal a 
day in winter, and about half that in the summer season. 

The Donnewald brothers are also interested in the Donnewald-I/aurie Ice Co., which 
cuts at Pekin Lake, Ills. Mr. Laurie, wno is associated with them, manages their interest 
for them. This company cuts about 20,000 tons for its own trade, and for the ^iate summer 
and fall trade buys also at Quincy, Ills., and elsewhere. It will be seen that these gentle- 
men are men of spirit and enterprise. 

MAYGER & NOLTE. 

Wholesale Dealers in Foreign Fruits, Fancy Groceries and Commission Merchants: 314 North Second 

Street. 

George E. Mayger and Edward H. Nolte have been doing business here now for nearly 
three years, Mr. Mayger having been identified with some of the largest houses in St. Louis 
for ten years prior to entering business on his own account. They have built up a prosper- 
ous and ^till promising establishment upon the soundest of business principles, the chief of 
which is that they try to hold in stock such goods as are in demand and not carried by 
other jobbers, who have necessarily to come to this house to get orders filled. Besides 
its other business the house makes it a point to hold some hrst-class agencies, among which 
may be mentioned Samuel Bliss' extra and absolutely pure Maple Syrups, Archer's Trophy 
Sugar Corn, Ottumwa Starch Works. The bulk of the business of the house represents an 
aggregate trade rising the sum of $150,000 a year. Among the specialties, other than those 
mentioned above, handled by the firm are, cocoanuts, grapes, nuts and cigars, and dealers 
wishing to find the largest assortment in oranges and lemons need only apply to Messrs. 
Mayger & Nolte; and this in full assurance that the house is considered one of the first in this 
especial line. 



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NELSON & NOEL. 

Bankers, and Agents for Safe Investment Trust Funds; Northwest Corner of Third and Pine Streets. 

Lewis C. Nelson and Henry M. Noel first became notable in this market by their suc- 
cess in handling and negotiating the securities of the Texas cities and Counties. They 
handle more Texas bonds, because of their reputation in that section, than any firm here, 
and probably more than all doing business here together. They do no commission busi- 
ness either here or in New York (where they have strong correspondents), but buy and sell 
outright. Insurance and bank stocks, municipal paper and investment bonds are the spe- 
cialties of their business. 

Messrs. Nelson & Noel have been in partnership since 1878. Mr. Nelson is Vice- 
President of the Laclede Bank, and is a prominent member of the Merchants Exchange. 
Mr. Noel has lived here some twenty-five years. He was formerly with Dodd, Brown & Co. 
in a responsible position. Before embarking with Mr. Nelson he was cashier in the Manu- 
facturers Bank. 

Mr. Nelson has had a lifetime experience in the line in which he now is. He has held 
the position of cashier of the Boonville, Mo., National Bank; of the First National Bank of 
Fort Scott, Kansas; and has been cashier also of the Valley National Bank here. 

Nelson & Noel are dealers in local and miscellaneous securities of all kinds, and espe- 
cially the following; U.S. Bonds; Texas Municipal Bonds; Illinois Municipal Bonds; 
Colorado Municipal Bonds; Arkansas State and County Bonds; Missouri State and County 
Bonds; Missouri County Bonds — defaulted; Nebraska Municipal Bonds; Kansas Munici- 
pal Bonds; United States Land Warrants ; Texas Land Scrip and Warrants; Western and 
Southern R. R. Stocks and Bonds; First-Class Commercial Paper; Stocks of all St. Louis 
Banks; Insurance Stocks; St. Louis Street R. R. Stocks; Stocks of all Local Manufactur- 
ing Companies. 

They also have money to loan on approved collaterals, and make collections requiring 
extra care. Correspondence solicited and reliable information furnished. 

DODGE & SEWARD. 

Manufacturers of Confectionery and Wholesale Dealers in Nuts, Fruits, etc. : 310 North Main Street. 

This enterprising firm, as such, has existed scarcely four years, but its senior, Mr. F. H. 
Dodge, was in the same line for a much longer period as Vice-President of the Dunham Man- 
ufacturing Co., of St. Louis, which disposed of its candy business to O. H. Peckham & Co. 
Mr. F. D. Seward, too, is of considerable business experience, and by the employment of 
energetic methods the firm has attained pre-eminent rank in this line of trade. 

To illustrate: a few months ago, by a large outlay and novel method of advertising a 
cigar called "Guy," over half a million of the new brand were sold in the short space of 
two and a half months, and the demand is still increasing. The specialty of the firm is fine 
home made goods in the confectionery line, and its factory is distinguished no less for the 
purity than for the general excellence of its product. The establishment, which was formerly 
located across the street, has enlarged facilities at its present choice location in the wholesale 
business quarter (310 North Main street), and is continually extending the territorial limits 
of its trade, which at present comprehend Arkansas, Illinois, Texas, Missouri, the Indian 
Territory and the West and Southwest generally, employing twelve men on the road. 

SUMNER, STRATTON & DAVIS. 

Manufacturers of Looking Glasses; Beveling, Resilvering- and Embossing: Office, Northwest Corner 
Eleventh and Walnut Streets: Factory at 2100 South Seventh Street. 

This is a new enterprise in St. Louis, established during the present summer, but it 
already is developing as an industry of great usefulness and profit. The gentlemen to whose 
progressive spirit, ample resources, energy and enterprise, St. Louis is indebted for this 
promising industry are Messrs. A. W. Sumner, Joseph A. Stratton and Christopher Davis. 
The former is especially well-known here through his connection with other enterprises, and 
Mr. Stratton contributes to the new establishment a wealth of practical experience in this line, 
gained through years of service as foreman of the largest factory in Chicago engaged in like 
process of manufacture. Mr. Davis, too. is able and energetic, and the firm, as a whole, 
comprises a degree of intelligent enterprise assuring the success of the endeavor. The fac- 
tory, at 2100 Soudi .Seventh street, is well fitted with material and facilities for manufacture, 
and employs a number of skilled laborers. The office is at the northwest corner of Eleventh 
and Walnut streets. 



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D. W. HAYDOCK. 

Wholesale Carriage Manufacturer: Teuth and St. Charles Streets. 

Until about two years ago Mr. D. W. Haydock was a member of the firm of Haydock 
Bros., but about that time he withdrew from that concern and established himself at loio St. 
Charles street. In March last he was burned out, and compelled to remove to his present 




quarters, which he will occupy in connection with the other building when it is rebuilt. Mr. 
Haydock came to St. Louis from Cincinnati in 1878. He had there been in the same line, 
and was pretty thoroughly experienced in it. His trade is a most excellent one, transactions 
in nearly every State of the Union indicating its volume. He makes a specialty of buggies 
and fine carriages, and when running his full force has 300 men engaged in the manufacture. 
Numerous premiums as well as widespread sales attest the merits of his vehicles. He man- 
ufactures mostly for the trade. Dealers are invited to call by him, or to send for catalogue 
and prices. 

THE LIVERPOOL AND LONDON AND GLOBE 
INSURANCE COMPANY. 

Archie Robinson, Resident Agent; N. W. Cor. Third and Chestnut Streets, Chamber of Commerce 

Building. 

The Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Company is now so thoroughly estab- 
lished in every large city of the country, and has been doing business for so many years in 
the United States, that it is hardly regarded now as a foreign corporation. Since 1851, 
when its first agency was opened in the United States, it has paid over $35,000,000 in losses 
— $3,239,091 for the Chicago fire of 1871, and $1,429,729 for the Boston fire of 1S72. It 
has $6,000,000 invested in the United States. Its total assets are over $38,000,000. It is 
undoubtedly the strongest and safest and most prosperous fire company in the world. Its 
credit is stronger than that of many governments. Its stock commands over 1,000 per cent, 
premium. It is not a speculative concern, the strongest laws of Great Britain governing its 
operations being an additional security to the policy holder in it. Its directors are 
England's merchant princes. 

Mr. Archie Robinson, the resident agent for this powerful corporation, has lived in .St. 
Louis since 1857, and has been a conspicuous underwriter since 1862, which is the year 
he was given charge of the company here. Fire risks are taken by this company only, 
and losses are invariably paid by it so soon as adjusted, without discount. 



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THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 



H. A. HYATT. 

The Mound City Photographic Stock House and Art Emporium; Dealers in Photographic Goods, 
Picture Frames and Mouldings : Northeast Corner Eighth and Locust Streets. 

This house dates back its records some 
thirty - seven years. It was established by 
VVm. H.Tilford in 1848— Gatchell & Hyattj 
successors in 1S73 — continuing for eight years 
under the latter management, during which 
time houses in Cincinnati, Louisville and St. 
Louis were run by that partnership, which, 
however, was dissolved in iSSi. Upon the 
division of assets, Mr. Hyatt assumed con- 
trol of the St. Louis house, and has conducted 
it alone ever since. He came here originally 
from New York, where he had ample com- 
mercial experience in the same line of trade. 

This concern has more than a fair coun- 
try trade. In the season, two travelers are 
employed by it, their territory including Illi- 
nois and Indiana, as well as the country west- 
ward and southward of this point. Illustrated 
catalogues, showing that this establishment 
deals in the best goods, at bottom prices, 
will be mailed on application therefor. The 
artistic character of the wares carried by this 
house is everywhere recognized, no less than 
the very reasonable price at which the same 
are afforded. Many of the framings that at- 
tract attention at the leading Expositions, and 
other places of public exhibit, emanate from this establishment. The accompanying illustra- 
tion affords a fair view of the magnitude of the house, but a personal visit will better enable 
one to judge of the manifold attractions of the interior. 




D. I. BUSHNELL & CO. 

Commission and Seed Mercliants ; 17 and 19 South Main Street. 

This is an old house in this line, and in its present form practically the consolidation of 
two houses. The senior partner, Mr. Bushnell, has been many years connected with this 
branch of business. Mr. Robert Pommer, who was the head of the firm of Pommer & Last, 
but had formerly been associated with Mr. Bushnell and Mr. Geo. S. Green, had like expe- 
rience in connection with the senior member. These three, so long engaged in the commis- 
sion business, but making a specialty of the seed trade, possess exceptional experience, 
ample resources, and other business qualifications, so that their trade, which extends to all 
parts of the country, may, through their combined efforts, be expected to greatly enlarge 
during the present year. They are at all times ready to furnish quotations on all varieties of 
grass seeds and seed grain. 

GEO. C. KIMBROUGH & SON HAT CO. 



Geo. C. Kimlirou^li, President; Frank P. Kimbrough, Secretary; 

no North Si.xth Street. 



Manufacturers of Stiff Hats: 



This house has a business record extending over twenty-five years. It was founded by 
the President of the present corporation, and for twelve years was carried on under the 
name of Gray, Kimbrough & Co., when, Mr. Gray retiring, the firm became Geo. C. Kim- 
brough & Son, which it remained until incorporation last January, with a capital stock of 
$30,000, and the Messrs. Kimbrough were chosen as President and Secretary respectively of 
the company. The location, too, was changed from Fifth Street to no North Sixth street. 

The company emj-iloys some thirty hands, and are now engaged in the manufacture of 
flexible and full stiff felt hats. The goods this company turns out will equal anything made 
by the large Eastern manufacturers. With their now increased facilities at No. no North 
Sixth street, they will offer to the trade goods that cannot be surpassed in style and finish. 
The factory and oi^ce are located at the above number. 



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THE McPHEETERS ^VAREHOUSE CO. 

W. L. Wickham, President: Frank Carter, Vice-President ; T. S. McPheeters, Secretary; 1104 to iiiS 

North Levee. 

The warehouses of this company, as seen in the cut, are conveniently located both for 

rail and river transportation, tracks connecting them with every road coming in to or going 

out of St. Louis, a fact that enables its patrons to handle their wares without cartage, 

.•-VS... •.":-.''^'r> .. .^^.^-^t: thereby saving an a 

...•-.-..-.-..--■ -.■ . . .-- -..-.:. . lVi*^C":;v.>, .... «^ mount equal to one 

month's storage. The 
authorized capital of the 
company is $100,000, of 
which $80,000 has been 
issued. The company 
owns its own property 
and buildings. The lat- 
ter were built by the com- 
pany for its particular 
business, and have every 
modern convenience and 
appliance for the hand- 
ling of freight economi- 
cally and with dispatch. 
The warehouses are 

constructed with special bins for the handling of grain in bulk, a matter of great convenience 
to those not caring to store in elevators on grade. The company has a large business with 
houses away from St. Louis, who use the warehouses as a depot for the distribution of their 
goods in. St. Louis and points in the West and Southwest, thus in many cases saving the 
necessity of an agent, porter and store. Eastern houses find the payment of storage much 
more economical than the employment of a resident agent. 

Besides storing merchandise of every kind and description, this company makes a 
specialty of handling agricultural implements, stored with them for the purpose of distri- 
bution to the western agents of the different agricultural houses. 

The officers of this company are: W. L. Wickham, President: Frank Carter, Vice- 
President; j T. S. McPheeters, Secretary ; who by their energy and enterprise have caused 
this company, established in 1877, to become one of the largest of its kind in the whole 
country. The company is well worthy of its success, and of the confidence of the business 
community; 

^ JOHN HOERR. 

Sole Proprietor and Manufacturer of Phosphatic Lemon-Rye: 303 South Seventh Street. 
For the past three years the subject of this paragraph has been manufacturing for the 
trade this esteemed preparation. It is not a beverage, but is a medicinal tonic, agreeable to 
the taste, endorsed and prescribed by reputable physicians for dyspepsia and other common 
ailments. Mr. Iloerr's trade is sufficient to employ two traveling men in the country and 
three city salesmen. The out of town business comes chiefly from Missouri, Arkansas, Iowa 
and Cincinnati, where the Phosphatic Lemon-Rye meets with reddy sale. 

KAMINER, PRINZ & CO. 

Manufacturers of jeans and Staple Clothing, for Men, Youths and Hoys: 519 St. Charles Street. 

In the history of this firm is found an illustration of the progress and success that await 
those whose enterprise and business knowledge merit such reward. Commencing in the re- 
tail line, Messrs. Jos. Kaminer and Benho Prinz succeeded therein, and about nine years aco 
became manufacturers and jobbers of jeans and staple clothing, which include satinets, 
cassimeres, and cotton and worsted goods such as are ordinarily worn by sons and daughters 
of toil. 

The estal)lishment at 51,9 St. Charles street comprises a spacious building, four stories 
and the basement being occupied by the firm. In the manufacturing, from 200 to 250 girls 
are employed, . and four traveling salesmen are constantly on the road. The trade of the 
house now covers Illinois, and the North, West and South, and is constantly increasing in 
amount and territorial extent, and this success is fully deserved by the enterprising pro- 
prietors. 




Mesker & Bro. — (See opposite page.) 



THE INDUSTRIES OF ST, LOUIS. 21^ 



F. D. HIRSCHBERG. 

Insurance: 120 North Third Street. 

Mr. F. D. Hirschberg, of 120 North Third street, is a life long resident of St. Louis, 
and one of the oldest insurance men in it. He has been doing business by himself for 
about ten years, having now the interests of the following strong corporations to attend to : 
The British America Assurance Co., Toronto; I^ion Fire Insurance Co., London; Scottish 
Union and National Insurance Co., Edinburgh; Louisville Underwriters, Louisville. 

The following figures show the extent of the business done by these companies and their 
standing. The Louisville Underwriters is a Fire and Marine Company. Its assets are 
$678,612.82; its paid up capital, $300,000; its surplus, $149,995.24. Its Missouri business 
in 1884 amounted to $2,688,597 of risks written, $1,974,472 being fire and $714,125 river 
risks. 

The British America Assurance Company, of Toronto, has deposited in the United 
States as surety toward its policy holders $251,600 of securities. Its business in Missouri 
last year was upwards of a million and a quarter dollars. 

The Lion Fire Insurance Company, of London, one of the strongest of the foreign 
companies, has $244,000 in securities deposited in the United States. Risks were written by 
its agents in Missouri last year to the amount of $1,120,960. 

The Scottish Union and National Insurance Company, of Edinburgh, has also $244,000 
in securities deposited with the authorities of various States. Its Missouri risks written 
during the last year exceeded $1,500,000 in amount. 

Mr. Hirschberg will be pleased to treat with parties desiring further information. 

MESKER & BRO. 

Manufacturers of Galvanized Iron Cornices and Skylights; Nos. 421, 423 and 425 South Sixth Street. 

In this department of ornamental architecture and building there has been a marvelous 
growth in the last few years, and B. T. and Frank Mesker have done much in the promotion 
and culture of this taste for ornamentation in St. Louis and elsewhere. Establishing them- 
selves here in 1879, on Third street, with the growth of the business they were obliged to 
move to larger quarters, and in 1883 removed to their present location at 421, 423 and 425 
South Sixth street, where their shops and office occupy 65x130 feet. When the sho]is are 
running full, an hundred men are employed, but in the present season about sixty constitute 
the force. While their trade is largely local, yet it is by no means confined to St. I.,ouis or 
this State; on the contrary it is continually enlarging in territorial extent, and now aggregates 
about $150,000 a year. 

The firm has successfully competed against Chicago and St. Paul establishments in the 
same line, as well as some in St. Louis, for large contracts. The galvanized cornice work 
on the St. Louis Exposition building in this city was done by this house, also like work upon 
the five principal theatres in this city; and they also did the cornice work upon the Court 
House at Butte City, Montana; at Fort Benton and a large amount of like ornamentation 
upon store buildings in Helena, Montana. Messrs. Mesker are now doing a fine piece of 
cornice work for a Chicago architect upon a building at Las Vegas, New Mexico. 

BOOTH, BARADA & CO. 

Real Estate and Financial Agents : 617 Chestnut Street, 

This well-known establishment was founded about thirty years since, by William Booth, 
senior of the present firm, and by the late Andrew S. Barada, father of Mr. F. X. Barada, 
a partner in the house now. The other member of the 6rm is Mr. James Cummiskey, wiio 
has occupied that position for fourteen years, and for six years prior thereto was attached to 
the house in a clerical capacity. 

For the past four years the establishment has been located at 617 Chestnut street, nearly 
opposite the Real Estate Exchange, the centre of trade in this line. The house has the 
entire charge of many estates of opulent non-residents. Besides, the house has charge of a 
variety of valuable store property all through the wholesale business section on Second and 
Third streets, and. of residence property in every residence district in the city. The 
firm has at all times money to loan on real estate in the city and county, and makes sales, 
collects rents, and generally attends to property entrusted to its supervision within St. 
Louis and the county outside. The standing of the firm is of the highest in business 
circles, and the reputation of the members of the house is that of experienced, painstaking 
and energetic business men. 



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THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 




THE BELMONT NAIL COMPANY. 

Wlieeliii}?, West Virginia* St. Louis Braiuh, J no A. (iibney, Aj^ciit: 310 Norili Third Slreet. 

The works of the Belmont Nail Company at Wheeling, West Virginia, cover thirty acres 
and employ 1,000 hands. Tleir capacity is 350,000 kegs yearly. The bulk of this product 
is sold in St. Louis and the territory supplied from it. The company has lately embarked in 

the manufacture of steel nails 
exclusively, and are now 
erecting Bessemer steel ma- 
chinery for that purpose. 

John A. Gibney is the 
general sales agent of the 
com|iany at this point. He 
lias tilled that post for some 
nineteen years, handling 
while thus engaged almost 
the entire output of the works. 
P'ormerly, when only iron 
nails were made by the com- 
pany, a large stock was car- 
ried on hand here, hut tiie steel nails are in such demand that it has not been possible to ac- 
cumulate a stock. 

The Belmont company's works are the oldest in Wheeling, and probably of the West. 
They also are of the greatest capacity. Prior to 1872, which is the year in which he took 
charge here, Mr. Gibney superintended sales at the mills, so that it can be seen that he is 
thoroughly experienceil and posted in his vocation. 

FREDERICK SCHMIDT. 

Manufacturer of all kinds of Horse Collars ; 1114 and 11 16 Lafayette Street. 

To the casual observer all horse collars are alike, and he supposes that a few men are en- 
f^aged in making them. It has not occurred to him that thousands of men and millions of dol- 
lars are embarked in that interest, and that horse collars differ about as much as horses do. 

There are heavy collars and light, and several hundred kinds of each manufactured in 
St. Louis, which is the largest centre of such manufacture in the world. Among those who 
make a specialty of the manufacture of horse collars in this market is Frederick Schmidt, the 
patentee of the celebrated Rothhan Collar. He commenced the work in 1858 when only 
eighteen years of age, antl with only two hands. By diligence and a practical knowledge of 
what the people need, he has so increased his establishment that it is now the largest exclu- 
sively collar factory in the West, employs thirty hands, and turns out of all kinds of collars, 
about an hundred dozen a week, which are sold in all parts of the United States, the trade 
aggregating about $50,000 last year, which was a comparatively dull season. The manu- 
factory is at 1 1 14 and 11 16 Lafayette street, covers 33x60 feet, is two and a half stories and 
a basement high. It is likely to grow larger, as Mr. .Schmidt's collars are popular in the 
trade. 

L. GARVEY & CO. 

Wholesale Dealers in Produce and Provisions, Butter, Cheese, Dried Fruits, etc. ; Southwest Corner 

Main and Market Streets. 

Eight years ago Mr. L. Garvey, tired of service as a subordinate in the Post Office here, 
concluded, with commendable ambition, to engage in mercantile affairs for his own account. 
Accordingly, he opened a produce and commission house at the corner of Main and Market 
streets. There he is still located, enjoying now a valuable and most satisfactory traffic with 
the producers ami dealers of Arkansas, Texas, Mississippi, Tennessee, as well as a fine city 
and local patronage, that averages fully $250,000 a year. He makes a specialty of fruit anil 
vegetables, with such domestic protluce as the Northern farmers raise for sale to the con- 
sumers of the South. Making as he does a close study of the movements of the markets 
wherein he has dealings, and having ample resources for any emergency of the times, he has 
been most successful in conducting the interests confided to him by consignors, and in re- 
taining and strengthening his patronage. Personally, Mr. Garvey is popular. He has re- 
peatedly been solicited to take office, but has invariably declined on the score of l)usiness 
engagements that may not readily be sacrificed. 



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THE JOSEPH PETERS FURNITURE CO. 

Jose[)h Peters, President; Chas. Spier, Vice-President; J. W. Treniayne, Sccrct:ir\' and Treasurer : 
Factories, Fifteenth and Chambers Streets; Office, Fifteentli aiul Cass Avenue. 

In the two establishments shown in the illustrations on this page, and belonging to the 
joscoh Peters Ftirniture Company, over 200 men are employed. The one factory is at P'if- 
teenth street and Cass avenue, and the other at Chambers street and Blair avenue. The 





former of the two was purchased three years ago. It was a small place then, but additions 
have been made to it until now it covers an area of 150 by 140 feet, and is the best equipped 
west of the Mississippi. The other factory is four stories high and covers 80 by 115 feet. 
The special manufactures of the Peters company are bedroom furniture, and the patronage 
of the com])any comes to it from all the country west of the Mississippi, and from the 
South. The business has been established about eighteen years, although the company was 
not incorporated until 1881. 

Mr. Joseph Peters, President of this company, is the pioneer furniture manufacturer of 
St. Louis. Having been bred to the trade, and being a first-class mechanic himself, it is 
easy to understand his success. Mr. Spier is manager of the factories. He too is an ex- 
pert mechanic. Mr. Treniayne, the Secretary and Treasurer of this company, has been with 
this concern about seven years. He is known outside his every-day employment as Treas- 
urer of the Manufacturers Mutual Insurance Co., and as Secretary of the Western Furniture 
Manufacturers Association. Inspired by Mr. Peters' example, nearly all the other furniture 
manufacturers of St. Louis have gone from his employ to begin for themselves, so that per- 
sonally, by showing what could be done here, he has given the trade a great impetus. 

CHARLES E. PRUNTY. 

Dealer in Seeds and Grain : 7 South Main Street. 

Having by twenty-odd years' service with Edward Jackson, the barley operator, and 
with other good seed firms, acquired a thorough and complete business experience, the sub- 
ject of this sketch ventured for himself in 1874. Moderately successful on the start, as years 
grew his trade grew with them, until now his house is rated with such as have a claim to 
space in this work. He has transactions with the South and West rising $200,000 yearly in 
seeds and grain, and is recognized in this market as most substantially fixed m the way of 
patronage. He has at his premises, No. 7 South Main street, some notable machinery for 
cleaning seeds, etc. — in this, as in all other characteristics of a thoroughly modern and live 
house, keeping well abreast of the times. 

R. SAUERW^EIN. 

Manufacturer of the Best Brewers' Pitch and Shellac Varnish, Bottle AVax and Sulphur Slips : Alley in 
Rear of 1320 South Second Street. 

Until but a short time ago the bottling and brewing trade, not only of St. Louis but of 
t-he entire West, had been compelled to purchase its supplies in Eastern markets and to take 
whatever, good or bad, was sent them from thence. Now, however, this drawback has been 
removed by the establishment here of the factory sketched in this account. Mr. R. Sauer- 
wein, of 1320 South Second street, is at tlie head of this enterprise. He is preparing and 
has already built up a good city and country trade for the commodities named in these head- 
lines. Prices, samples, etc., will be furnished by him upon application. Patronize a home 
industry. 



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THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 



WESTERN BATH TUB AND MANUFACTURING CO. 

\Vin. rirant. President; M;iniifu.ctiirers of Balli Tubs, Plumbers' Copper AVare, etc. : Oflice and Factory 
2S09, 281 1, 2S13, 2S1S and 2817 South Broadway. 

It needed not the torrid weather of the past summer in St. Louis and elsewhere to estab- 
lish the need and healthfulness of a bath in the household. Such an article of utility, and 
pleasure to the bather, has always been urged by the medical fraternity as essential to good 
health. 




The Western Bath Tub and Manufacturing Co. was incorjiorated on June 4th last, with 
a capital stock of $50,000, and Mr. Brant, the energetic President who directs its affairs, 
has had many years' experience in this line of manufacture. The company manufactures a 
variety of sizes of bath tubs, in copper and zinc, as well as sinks, plumbers' copper ware, 
under counters for hotels and drug stores, etc. The extensive new factory of the company, 
which takes the place of the one destroyed by fire, is fitted with such increased and perfected 
facilities that no better work is turned out in the United States. The company em]iloys a 
very superior method of its own in tinning and planishing sheet copper, securing a heavier 
coating and higher polish than other manufacturers obtain. Twenty skilled workmen are 
constantly employed, and the trade of the company, which is still growing, already covers 
the North and Northwest, extending East to Pittsburgh, West to Colorado, and South in 
Texas and Louisiana, as well as largely supplying the leading wholesale houses of St. Louis. 

President Brant is a business man of indefatigable energy and long experience. Under 
his excellent management the continued prosperity of the company is assured. 

A. WITHMAR & CO. 

Direct Importers and Dealers in China, Glass, Queeosware, etc., Glass Engraving- and China Decorat- 
ing; Agents tor Manufacturers of Vitreous Hotel China, etc.; 40S North Fourth Street. 

A China bazaar is always an attractive place to visit, and especially so when the j^ro- 
prietors are direct importers of the fine wares, and do their own decorating in the highest 
style known to the art. 

Such an establishment is that of A. Withmar & Co., 40S North Fourth street, which was 
founded by the senior of the present firm in 1S62, the ]iartners, Messrs. L. Kaminski and 
R. B. Gray, having been made so in 1880. Of the establishment (25x140 feet) the first floor 
is devoted to the retail trade, the other four to the jobbing department. The firm does its 
own decorating, at a spacious studio, or art rooms, on Chouteau avenue and Second Caron- 
delet avenue, and is the only house West of New York jiursuing that desirable ])olicy, and 
emjiloying its own glass engravers and cutters. The china imjiorted reaches the Custom 
Mouse here in a white or unfinished state, and is decorated to order. This house alone im- 
ports the celebrated Haviland & Co. French china in white state, and decorates it here, as 
also the Royal semi-porcelain of Thomas Maddock & Sons, Staffordshire, England. Hav- 
ing in their employ, also, one of the most expert engravers in this country, they are enabled 
to make a specialty of cutting and engraving the glass that is used in the finest chandeliers 
and parlor lamps, which the establishment keeps in large quantity and bewildering brilliancy. 
"Withmar tS: Co. also handle rich cut and engraved glassware, such as the Amberini and other 
fancy varieties, and bisque figures, mantel ornaments, vases, cologne setts, motted cups and 



THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 221 



saucers, toys and other ho'ida/ goods in season, which they decorate to order. The house 
employs hity hands. 

It may be mentioned that the firm decorated the fine dinner ware of the University CUib, 
which cost over $ I, ooo; the Harmonia Chib and Delnionico Park wares, and have filled a 
large number of special orders from clubs and associations at Chicago, Cincinnati, Memphis 
and other points. They prepare to order bridal and presentation setts with monograms de- 
sired, and are, at this writing, engaged upon a sett having over nine hundred dozen of letters 
to be engraved upon goblets, wine-glasses, and other table ware for a leading hotel in the 
South. Yet it is not to be presumed that the house deals only in expensive wares, for goods 
from the highest to the very cheapest are kept in stock, and it is fair to assume that thelatter 
help to swell the aggregate yearly sales, w hich exceed $250,000, and in extent include pat- 
ronage from as far West as Arizona, and practically all of the Northern and Southern States. 

In the Fourth street store are seen an hundred and fifty patterns of toilet sets of original 
designs and decoration. On January 5th, 18S4, the establishment and the entire stock were 
included in a diastrous fire, but the firm resumed business as soon as the debris could be re- 
moved and a new stock procured. The china department at the " Famous" is owned by the 
same parties, and does a large business in cpieensware under the name of Withmar, Gray & 
Kaminski. 

Mr. Withmar was born and raised in St. Louis, has been in business since an early age; 
had connection and interest with several other houses in the city, and several stores have 
been established by those who were formerly in his employ. Always enterprising, his store 
has contributed large displays to State Fairs and Expositions, and will be so represented at 
the St. Louis Exposition this fall. The other members of the firm are also active and enter- 
prising and have largely contributed to its success. 

THE NORTHWESTERN MULE COMPANY. 

Ervin Julian, Superinttnclent ; Win. P. Ilenrv, Secretary: looi, 1003, 1022 and 1024 North Broadway. 

The gentlemen whose names appear above, with apartner in commendum, are the princi- 
pals in this concern. The caption to this account has been the designation for the business 
about two years, but before that the establishment had been conducted for about thirteen 
years. This firm buys and sells outright, and also handles stock 
on commission. They have conveniences for the accommoda- 
tion of 200 mules and about 125 horses. 

The best horses come to them from Iowa and Northwestern 
Missouri, while the bulk of their mules are brought in from 
Illinois. In this State the Northwestern Company finds that 
lately Eastern buyers sen<l to the towns direct and thus obtain 
their stock, making shipments through instead of buying here, 
as was formerly the plan. Hence local buyers are dependent 
upon such conveniences as the dealers here may offer, stock of 
all sorts being scarcer than the demand. During the winter months this company's receipts 
average about 800 head: in summer, 300. Their shipments this year are mostly to the South 
and West, the needs of which sections they have thoroughly mastered so as to be able to 
satisfy patrons better than any other of the St. Louis yards. 

TRORLICHT & DUNCKER. 

Importers, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Carpets, Oil Cloths, Matting- and Curtain Goods ; 506 North 

Fourth Street. 

Since 1863 this firm, composed of J. H. Trorlicht, H. Duncker and L. Renard, has oc- 
cupied a prominent position in the trade of St. Louis, and the growth of the house has more 
than kept pace with the city's increase in population and in commercial importance. 

As direct importers of foreign made carpets and other goods in their line, they deal with 
the mills exclusively, and thus are enabled to offer customers greater advantages than those 
who do not import from first hands. The wide range in their goods, from the very cheapest 
to the most expensive kinds of floor coverings, and the same policy pursued with reference 
to curtains, also results advantageously. 

The firm not only occupies the five stories (40x150 feet) of 506 North Fourth street, but 
the three floors of an adjoining building of the same size as well. Forty salesmen are em- 
ployed, and while the city retail trade and that of adjoining towns is very large, the wholesale 
business of the firm in the South and West continually increases also. The partners are all 
old residents of St. Louis, and identified in various ways with the growth and business pros- 
perity of the great Mississippi Valley of which this is the trade centre. 




222 THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 

FRITZ SMITH. 

Manufacturer of Indigo Wash-Blue, Writing and Copying Inks, Flavoring Hxlracts, Sewing Machine 
Oil, Olive Oil, Oa-tor Oil, Toilet Soaps, etc.: 91 j North l-ounh >trect. 

The wash blue, inks and flavoring extracts manufactured by this gentleman are all of his 
own preparation, and are made on the premises at 913 North Fourth street, under his per- 
sonal direction. Their quality and salable merit has long since been approved by a first- 
class patronage, mostly local but sufficiently good in the country to make the establishment 
prominent enough for classification m this record of the St. Louis industries. The annual 
transactions of Mr. Smith's house are about $50,000 in value, which sum is most largely 
contributed to by the wholesalers and leading retailers of this vicinity. The indications are 
that this trade will be better this season 'than ever before, matters of outside management 
now employing the energetic proprietor of No. 913 about half his time, and suggesting 
greater possibilities for the trade in the near future. 

ALFRED A. PRALL. 

Designer and Carver; Manufacturer of Artistic Cabinet Work, Wood Mantels, Architectural Carving, 

etc.: 1012 and igi4 Olive Street. 

The artistic taste of the people of St. Louis has been greatly promoted by the artists, 
designers, carvers and sculptors who have located here. The subject of this sketch came 
West about eight years since, but had professionally labored in the same line at Hartford, 
Conn., some years earlier. For a time he was located here on Washington avenue, and then 
for five years at 513 Elm street, but has recently removed to more commodious as well as more 
artistic quarters at 1912 and 1914 Olive street, where he occupies three floors, 42x68 feet. Mr. 
Prail, during the summer season, makes a specialty of theatrical work, and does a great deal of 
it throughout the West. His carved wood mantels are models of art, and adorn many of the 
finest mansions of the West End. His fine hand work is a specialty, and it is all done to order. 
The number of artists employed under his direction in carving and designing averages from 
fifteen to twenty, and he keeps on hand in his studio a considerable variety of classic and 
artistic wares. 

LINEBARGERS & CO. 

Grain Commission : 307 Chamber of Commerce. 

Lewis and Henry Linebargers and John Pritchet have been in partnership for about 
two years. They do a big Southern option and order business, their consignments coming 
from the West and Northwest, and their shipments going to the South and East. 

Mr. Lewis Linebargers has lived hereabouts for a year or more. He came from Illi- 
nois, where he had been doing a grain and banking business since 1869, and where his 
brother Henry (also a member of the firm) still conducts that same business. Mr. Pritchet 
is a resident of St. Louis since 1872. He has always been in this line. He built the En- 
terprise Elevator when he first came here. This house makes a specialty of the staples, 
grain and hay, receiving mostly from Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri. Its 
business practice has been thorough, and its methods square and straightforward from the 
start. 




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REPRESENTATIVE HOUSES. 



PAGE. 

^Idcn & Bro., manufacturers of the Aldeii 

Fruii Niueg-ar 199 

Aloe & Co., A. S., manufacturers and im- 
porters of mathematical, optical, electrical 

and surgical instruments ... 142 

American Art Co., G. M. Asiiley, proprietor.. 175 
American Carbon Co.,The, maiiUiacLurers of 

superior carbons for electric li;,'iiis .... 193 
American Surety Co., The, Bascoine & Mun- 

80ii,St. Louis agents 154 

American Wine Co., The," Cook's Imperial." 107 
-Vnctior Line, Tlie, Mississippi river steamers. 70 
Anchor Milling Co., The, manutacturers of 
the "Anchor," "Parity," " Crangle's Im- 
perial," and other choice brands 165 

Anneuser-Bur-ch Brewing Association, The b9 

Antiiony & Kuhn Brewing Co , The lOu 

AriiUt & Koch, general produce commission 

merchants 1"9 

Aini>t, Jesse, livery, sale and board stable... 137 
Atkinson & Co., Uobert, general order and 
couimission merchants, dealers in flour, 
mill feed, grain, hay, groceries, etc., and 
commission merchants in wool, hides, furs, 
feathers, etc 1-3 

Bacon & AVest, general commission mer- 
chants, etc 127 

Barijee, \V. T., wrought iron fence and wire 
works, 1*. L. Betts,. Manager 154 

Barnett & Son, Geo. 1., architects and super- 
intendents 113 

Barnes &, Hayward, shorthand, telegraph 
and business college 206 

Banihart Merca.uile Co., The, jobbers of 
f.ircign fruits, foreign and domestic nuts, 
canned goods, etc 102 

Barr. The W in. Barr Dry Goods Company, 
dealers in dry goods, furnishing goods, 
boots and shoes, etc 6'.t 

Battle & Co., chemists' corporation 189 

Becaunon & Co., Cornelius, wholesale and 
retail dealers in artistic gas fi.vmres, 
clocks, bronzes, metal and porcelain lamps 121 

Belmont Xail Co., The, John A. Gibney, St. 
Lo.iisagent 21S 

Bemis Bro. Bag Co., bag manufacturers .. 72 

Benton Wire \Vorks Co.^ The, manufacturers 
of barbed wire fencing 138 

Berry Brothers, E. P Davenport, resident 
manager, manufacturers of varnishes ... 16'J 

Berry & Mathews, proprietors St. Louis 
chewing gnin manufactory, etc 189 

Bienenstock & Co., ."5., dealers in broom corn, 
broom material, furs, hides, peltries, 
feathers and wool 135 

Billiugsley& Xanson Commission Co., The, 
grain and options l'.:8 

Blackman & Co., Geo., dealers in leather and 
manufacturers goods 188 

Block, Dean & Co , general commission mer- 
chants 177 

Blossom & Co., H. M., Are and marine insur- 
ance 210 

Boercker, Charles, Moesler's patent Cin- 
cinnati safes 197 

Boland, John L., wholesale bookseller, sta- 
tioner and paper dealer, and -blank book 
manufacturer 135 



Boutli, Barada & Co., real estate and finan- 
cial agents 217 

Bowman & Co. , dairy products, etc 81 

Branch, Crookes & Co., proprietors, St. Louis 

saw works 150 

Brandt, .J. G., boots and shoes 201 

Brinckwirth-XolKer Brewery Co , The, pro- 
prietors Lafavelte brewery 20J 

Brockner-Evaiis Bale Tie Co., The, manu- 
facturers of patent steel wire bale ties, gal- 
vanized wire netting, sheep fencing, 

poultry houses, etc 139 

Brooks, "K S., dealer in hides U^ 

Bryan-Br(jwn Shoe Co., The, manufacturers 

of boots and shoes .. 157 

Buck's Stove and Range Co.. manufacturers 
Buck's "Brilliant" stoves and ranges (see 

also advertising pages) 158 

Burrell, Comstock & Co., furniture 171 

Bush & Co , Isidor, American Wine Depot. Ill 
Bushnell & Co., D. I., commission and seed 
mercliants 214 

Cafferata, Sons & Co., A., importers and 
wholesale dealers in tropii'al fruits, Cali- 
fornia and Florida oranges, etc 150 

Calhoun & Co , John K , manufacturers and 
jobbers nf agricultural implements, farm 
wagons, mill machinery, etc 143 

Campbell, Lancaster & Co., live stock com- 
missicni merchants . 169 

Card, Xathan, manufacturer of all modern 
styles of carriages, buggies, phaetons, 
surrevs, etc 208 

Carli-le, David, manufacturer of crushed 
feed and dealer in all kinds of grain, hay, 
bran, etc 149 

Cash, Stewart & Overstreet, live stock com- 
mission merchants . Ii5 

Cass Avenue Iron Works and Foundry, 
Gerst Bros Manufacturing Co., proprietors 85 

Cassidy Bros & Co., live stock commission 
merchants and forwarding agents 114 

Chadbourne & Co., G. W., M Louis shot 
tower; also commission merchants 66 

Chamberlain & Co., F. B., commission mer- 
chants for the sale of flour, cheese, butter, 
grass seeds, etc., and wholesale dealers in 
gunpowde.- and safety fuse 196 

Chambei-3 & Streetor, scenic and show paint- 
ers 124 

Central Iron Works, Geo. J. Fritz, proprietor 116 

Cherokee Brewing Co., brewers of Herold's 
superior bottled lager beer, etc 75 

Chester & Keller Manufacturing Co., manu- 
facturers of handles, spokes and wood- 
work 115 

Child, A. J., general purchasing agent and 
commission merchant 163 

Christv Fire ClnvCo.. The 79 

Claflin- Allen slioe Co., The, manufacturers 
and jobbers of boots and sliocs 1' 6 

Clearv, Redmond & Co., coinmis-ion mer- 
chants 101 

Collins Brothers Drug Company, Tlie, whole- 
sale druggists and manufacturers of pro- 
prietarv in -dicines, etc 76 

Commercial Printing Compan , The, print- 
ing and binding 91 



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THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 



PAGE. 

Consolidated Ice Machine Co., of Chicago, 
Tlie, manufacturers of ice making and re- 
frigerating macliinery 113 

Covenant Mutual Lite Insurance Co., of St. 
Louis, The 89 

Crawford & Co., D., general dry goods mer- 
chants 139 

Crescent Metal Works, More, .lones & Co., 
manufacturers of all kinds of car and en- 
gine brasses. Babbitt metals, solders, bar- 
lead, etc 82 

Crow, Hargadine &. Co., importers of dry 
goods and notions 61 

Curtis & Co., Manufacturing Co., manufact- 
urers "f and dealers in engines, boilers, 
saw mills, gang edgers, planing mills and 
stave machinery, circular saws, mill sup- 
plies, etc 166 

Davis & Son, I. B., of Hartford, Conn., R. 
M. de Arozarena, M. E., resident manager, 
manufacturers of Rerrynian's patent feed 
water healer and pumping machinery 197 

Day Ruljber Co., The, wholesale and retail 
rubber goods 169 

Deane Steam Pump Co., The 133 

Deere, Mansur & Co., fai-ni muchinery, spring 
wagons, buggies, carriages etc 9i 

Dehner-Wuerpel Mill IJuilding Co., manu- 
facturers of shafting, gear ng and general 
machinery, importers of bolting cloth, belt- 
ing, etc 75 

Dewes & Co , A. H., wholesale dealers in fur 
nishing goods, notions, table and pocket 
cutlery, stationery, etc 101 

Diamond Jo Line, The, St. Louis and St. 
Paul passenger and freight lines (see also 
advertising pages) 211 

Dodge & .-Reward, manufacturer.^ of confec- 
tionery and wholesale dealers in nuts, 
fruits, etc 212 

Donnewald & Co., G. H., wholesale dealers 
in Lebanon coal 211 

Domestic Sewing Ma>"hine Co., of New York, 
E. L. Greene, resident manager 207 

Dowuton Manufacturing Co., The, mill build- 
ers and furnishers 167 

Dozier-Weyl Cracker Co., The 159 

Duggan- Parker Hardware Mauufacturing 
Co., The, manufacturers of refined air fur- 
naces, malleable iron and gray iron hard- 
ware 162 

Edwards & Co., James, bonds and stocks 125 

Ehlermann & Co., ('has., malsters and deal- 
ers in hops and barley; brewers, distillers 
and bottlers' supplies 90 

Elwell&Co., John W., general produce com- 
mission merchants and dealers in hide.«, 
furs, feathers, etc 178 

Ely & ^A^alker Dry Goods Co., importers and 
jobbers 86 

Eureka Vinegar Co , The 186 

Evers Stove Manufacturing Co., The, Syca- 
more stoves '. 163 

Ewing, James F., agent for the Salt Associa- 
tion of Michig.m, etc 77 

Excelsior Distilling Co., The, re-distillers, 
rectifiers for the trade and wholesale liquor 
dealers 125 

Excelsior Harvesting Machines, The, Geo. N. 
Scott, general agent 148 

Fay Gas Fixture Co., The, plumbing, gas fit- 
ting, regilding, rebronziug 191 

Fifth National Bank, The 87 

Fleischmann & Co., Geo. W. McGlaughlin, 
agent, manufacturers compressed yeast... 145 

Fourth National Bank, The 180 

Foy, F. M., general agent for Rumely port- 
able and tractioU engines, etc 

Francis. The D. R. Francis & Bro., Commis- 
sion Co 80 

Frankenthal, A., & Bro , manufacturers and 
wholesale dealers iu niens'turnishing goods 84 

Franklin Bank, The 190 

Franklin Mutual Insurance Co., of St. Louis 130 



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PAGE. 

Franz Krein Manufacturing Co., The, manu- 
facturers of wood hanies, trace, coil, ox, 
log and wagon chains 187 

Fritz, Geo. J., Central Iron Works, manufact- 
urers of patent steam engines, doctors, 
brewers' air pumps, mill gearing, genera! 
machinery, etc ll(i 

©anahl, Schallert & Co , leather and shoe 
findings 137 

Garvey A Co., L., wholesale dealers in pro- 
duce, provisions, dried fruits, etc '21<S 

Gaus & Sons, Henry, North St. Louis plan- 
ing and moulding mill; sash, door, blind 
and box factory, etc 119 

Garratt & Co., J. W., brass founders 177 

Gast & Co., Aug., lithographers and bank 

note engravers 1()01 

(See also second page of cover.) 

Gaylord & Co., Samuel A., dealers in invest- 
meni securities i:;o 

Gerst Bros. Manufacturing Co , Cass Ave- 
nue Iron Works and Foundry, manufact- 
urers of iron railings, castings, etc. (see 
also advertising i)ages) 85 

Gitfert A Kostuba, manufacturers of parlor 
furniture, student's chair, lounges, patent 
rockers, etc 161 

Ginoccliio, Bros. & Co., wholesale dealers in 
foreign, California and tropical fruits 124 

Globe Panorama Co., The, " ftiege of Paris." 176 

Globe Pickle Co., The ■:.)2 

Goelitz Bros. Candy Co.,manufact"ring con- 
fectioners and dealers in fruits, nuts, 
crackers, etc 156 

Goetz & Cobb, sole manufacturers of Glen- 
coe lime, and wholesale dealers in cement, 
lime, plaster, sand, hair, fire brick, etc .. 84 

Goldsmith & Co., N., hides, wool, furs and 
general commission 145 

Golsan, Coit & Co., commission merchants... 173 

Goodyear Rubber Co., The, G. B. Thomson, 
manager; dealers in all kinds of rubber 
goods 109 

Graham Paper Co., The, manufacturers and 
dealers 151 

Granby Mining and Smelting Co., miners and 
smelters of lead and zinc 198 

Great Western Oil Works, of Cleveland, 
Ohio, The, Gus. Whittemore, manager of 
St. Louis branch 179 

Green & Clark, manufacturers of and whole- 
sale dealers in Missouri cider and vinegar. 206 

Grier Connnission Co., The, grain commis- 
sion merchants 141 

Grone. The H. Grone Brewery Co 179 

Grote. The S. E. Grote Paint Store Co., 
whole =:ale and retail dealers in painters' 
supplies 149 

Guernsey Furniture Co., manufacturers of 
parlor," bed room and dining room sets, 
odd pieces, etc 74 

Haase & Son, A. C. L., wholesale dealers in 
and jKickers of European and domestic 
fish, canned goods, etc 185 

Halliday & Co., *'., safes, time locks and 
vault doors 169 

Hamilton-Brown Shoe Co., The, manufact- 
urers and jobbers of boots and shoes 153 

Hartman &Co ,R., produce commission mer- 
chants 152 

Haydock, D. W., wholesale carriage manu- 
facturer 213 

Hedges & Co., O. P., dealers in and agents 
for the sale of Missouri and Arkansas 
lands '.. 170 

Heisler Electric Bell and Burglar Alarm Co. 193 

Heisler Electric Light Co., The, manufact- 
urers and patentees of arc and incandes- 
cent dynamo machines and lamps, etc .. 193 

Henry & Co., manufacturers of all grades of 
excelsior 140 

Herder, B., bookseller, publisher and im- 
porter; church ox-naments and vestments. 165 



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PAGE. 

Hernstein & Prince, importers and manu- 
facturers of surgical, optical and elec- 
trical iustrunients, surveyors' aud en- 
gineers' supplies 209 

Hill, Clarke & Co., machinery, machinists' 
power tools, steam engines, boilers and 
pumps, Iielting and supplies, etc 109 

Hirschberg, F i)., insurance 217 

Hoerr, John, manufacturer phosphatic lera- 
onrye 215 

Holman Paper Box Co., The, manufacturers 
of all kinds of paper boxes 112 

Holt, Pavne & Co., live stock commission 139 

Hooker-Colville Steam Pump Co., The, man- 
ufacturers of compound coudensingpump- 
ing engines, etc 203 

HopkinsXt Co., Geo. K., wholesale druggists 18S 

Howe Machine Co., The, H. Brinsmade, St. 
L'luis manager 119 

Hull & Coz/ens ManufacturingCo., The, sole 
agents aud manufacturers of Hayes' patent 
skylight. Spears' Philadelphia fire place 
heater. Kichardson & Boynton heating fur- 
nace; tin aud galvanized iron work 136 

Hull & Steele, live stock commission mer- 
chants 147 

Humes & Co., Charles, line builders' hard- 
ware, cutlery and mechanics^' tools 183 

Humphreys &"Bro., David, general commis- 
sion merchants, etc 174 

Hunter Bros., shipping and commission, 
grain and feed house 140 

Hunter, Evans & Co., live stock commission 
merchants 62 

Huse A Loomis Ice and Transportation Co., 
"The, wholesale dealers in ice 10:1 

Hyatt, H. A., dealer in photographic goods, 
picture frames, etc 214 

Hydraulic Press Brick Co., The 71 

Inland Oil Co., of Cincinnati, Geo. W. Gun- 
nison, St. Louis manager; manufacturers 
of railway, mining and machinery oils, etc 67 

Johansen Bros., manufacturers of ladies', 
misses' and children's boots and shoes US 

Jones & Co., Robert McK., di-y goods com- 
mission 145 

Jones, Edwards & Co., wholesale liquor 
dealers and importers 208 

Jordan, A. J., importer and wholesale dealer 
in cutlery 197 

Jordan Floral Company, The, cut flowers, 
plants and floral decorations 205 

Judd & Co., Max., cloak manufacturers 199 

Judy& Co.,W. W., dealers in poultry and 
game 81 

Kaminer, Prinz & Co., manufacturers of 

jeans and staple clothing 215 

Kendall-Bayle Cracker Co., The 173 

Keys & Co , C M., live stock, commission 

and forwarding agents 130 

Keystone Manufacturing Co., The, E. L. 

Gait, manager St. Louis branch 156 

Kimbrough & Son Hat Co., Geo. C, manu- 
facturers of stiff hats 314 

Kingman & Co., wholesale farm machinery... 195 
Kingsland & Ferguson Manufacturing Co., 
The, manufacturers of saw mill and agri- 
cultural machineiy 97 

Kirchner, G. W. and A. H., architects and 

superintendents 210 

Kirk & Co., David B., flour commission 158 

Koppelman Furniture Co., The, manufact- 
urers of furniture 202 

Kracke & Co., J. H., commission merchants. 196 

Kratt, Holmes Grocery Company, The 101 

Krieckhaus & Co., A. , dealers in hides and 
tallow, and commission merchants for the 

sale of leather, fur and wool 77 

Kruse & Co., E. C, commission merchants 
for the sale of hides, wool, pelts, tallow, 
furs, etc 134 

liaclede Fire Brick Manufacturing Co., The, 
manufacturers of gas retorts, lire bricks, 
sewer pipe, terra cotta ware, etc 172 



P.'V.GK. 

Laclede Hotel, The, Griswold & Speny, pro- 
prietors 1S3 

Lange & Co., Adam, manufacturers of show 
cases 210 

Lang & Sons, S. J., importers and wholesale 
liquor dealers, and manufacturers of cigars HI 

Legg, J. B., architect and sui)erintendent .... 138 

Lehman & Co., Ancia cigar factory 131 

Lehmann, P., beef packer, steamboats sup- 
plied 116 

Levy, Herman & Co., commiss:)n merchants 
and dealers in hides, furs, wools, etc 148 

Llnebargers & Co., grain commission 222 

LiveiiJool and London and Globe Insurance 
Co., The . 213 

Loeweustein Brothers, wholesale jewelers, 
diamonds, watches, novelties 123 

Logeman Chair Manufacturing Co., The F. 
H., manufacturers of cane, reed, wood 
seat and split bottom f hairs 105 

Ludlow-Saylor Wire Co., The, manufactur- 
ers of ancl dealers in wire and wire goods. 187 

Lungstras Dyeing and Cleaning Co 199 

Lynch & Co., wholesale liquors 205 

MacMurray - Judge Architectural Iron Co., 
The, manufacturers of architectural iron. 110 

Marine Insurance Co., The, Are and marine 
insurance 72 

Marshall & Co., W. D., The Western Foun- 
dry, manufacturers of steam engines, gas 
works and mining machinery, shafting 93 

Mawdsley & Mepham, dealers in chande- 
liers and gas lixtures, plumbers and steam 
pipe fitters 195 

Mayger & Nolle, wholesale dealers in for- 
eign fruits, fancy groceries, and commis- 
sion merchants 211 

McCabe, Henry, manufacturer of plug, 
ciiewing and twist tobaccos 171 

McCabe & Young, manufacturers of spring 
wagons 131 

McCall & Haase, manufacturers of fine car- 
riages, coupes, buggies, surreys, etc 140 

McCormick & Co., 11. S., grain exporters and 
commission dealers 133 

McDonald, A. and Brother, St. Louis Steam 
Forge and Iron Works, manufacturers of 
railroad work, and every description of 
locomotive forging, steamboat work, sugar 
mill shafts, etc 104 

McPheeters Warehouse Co., The 215 

Medart Pulley Co., The, manufacturers of 
wrought iron rim pulleys 182 

Meier, John, manufacturer of men's and 
boys' boots and shoes 200 

Mercantile Agency, The (R. G. Dun & Co.), 
C. B. SmiOi, St. Louis manager 79 

Merrick. Walsh & Phelps, importing jewelers 
and silversmiths, fine diamonds, French 
clocks, etc 190 

Mesker & Bro., manufacturers of galvan- 
ized iron cornices and sky-lights 217 

Metcalf, Moore & Co., live stock commission 
merchants 131 

Meyberg & Kothschild Bros., manufacturers 
of hats, caps and straw goods, and dealers 
in furs, gloves and umbrellas (see also ad- 
vertising pages) 194 

Meyer, Bannerman & Co., manufacturers of 
saddlery, saddlery hardware, leather, etc. 175 

Meyer, H. D., general commission merchant 154 

Michigan Dairy Salt Co., Jas. F. Ewing, 
agent 77 

Milburn Manufacturing Co., The, manufact- 
urers of carriages, buggies, spring wagons 144 

Milligan & Co., L. P., manufacturer of Mil- 
ligan's apple cider, pickles and kraut 208 

Mississippi Glass Co., manufacturers of 
rough-rolled cathedral glass and ribbed 
plate glass 63 

Mississippi, Missouri and Ohio Packet Lines, 
Jenkins &Sass, agents 123 

Missouri State Mutual Fire and Marine In- 
surance Co 200 

Missouri Tinware Co., The, pieced, stamped 
and japaned ware 194 



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THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 



PAGE. 

Mitchell Furniture Co., The 114 

Witran IJolt and Nut ^fanufacturing Co., 
nianuf:i('turers of gimlet-point caach and 
lag screws, machine, key, car and bridge 
bolts, etc 174 

Moser, Bull & Co., manufacturers of cigar 
and paper boxes 128 

Moser's Hotel, Leo Mosev, proprietor 173 

Mound ('ity Distilling Co., The, distillers, 
reUistillers and rectitiers (.see also outside 
cover jiage ) ViO 

Mound Oitv Mutual Fire Insurance Co., of 
St. Loui.s 196 

Mound Coffin Co , The, manufacturers of 
wood burial cases and caskets and general 
undertakers' supplies 104 

Muldoon & Sharp, pork packers and whole- 
sale dealers in provisions 181 

Murphy, 1*. C, manufacturer of and whole- 
sale dealer in trunks and traveling goods 198 

Mvers, M. M., manufacturer and joober of 
youths' and boys' clothing 204 

National Stock Yards Co., The St. Louis, 
yards i'> St. Clair, Co., Illinois 95-6 

National Tube Works Co., manufacturers of 
\VTOught iron pii)e and boiler tubes, arte- 
sian, oil and well driving tubing and cas- 
ing, luunps, columns, etc 98 

Nelson & Noel, bankers and agents for the 
safe investment of trust funds . 212 

Newcomb Bros. Wall Paper Co., jobbers of 
wall paper, curtain materials, etc 115 

New Home .-sewing Machine Co., The, J. B. 
Carpenter, resident manager 80 

New York Life Insurance Co., The, Wm. L. 
Hill, general manager 83 

Nicholson, David, tine groceries, importer of 
teas, wines, liquors, etc .... 6.t 

Niedringhaus, Chas., wholesale and retail 
stoves, ranges, etc 135 

Nonotuck Silk Co., C. H. Sampson, agent, 
Corticelli spool silk, etc 204 

Northwestern Mule Co., The 221 

Nugent & Bro.,B., jobbers and retailers of 
American and foreign dry goods 164 

©"Connor & Harder Furnace and Range Co., 
manufacturers of and dealers in tumaces, 
stoves, ranges and house furnishing goods 112 

Oswego .-^tar* Factory, T. Kingsford & Son, 
manufacturers 151 

Overstreet & Co , J. W., live stock commis- 
sion salesmen and forwarding agents 121 

Pacific Warehouse Companj', The, receiving, 
storage and forwarding 115 

I'addocl'i-Hawley Iron Co., The, manufact- 
urers and dealers 106 

Pauly Jail Building and Manufacturing Co. 94 

Peabody & "-teams, arcliitects, St. Louis 
representative, P. P. Furber 105 

Peter.s — The Joseph Peters Furniture Co 219 

Phillips, Woolman & Todd, manufacturers 
and jobbers of boots and shoes 73 

Pioneer Steam Keg Works, The, Wm. Brown 
& Co., proprietors 128 

Pond Engineering Co., The, Frank H. Pond, 
proprietor, engineers and contractors for 
the erection of steam hydraulic machinery 162 

Prall, Alfred A., designer and carver, etc 222 

Prunty, Chas. E., dealer in seeds and grain 219 

Kassfeld & Soeker, wholesale dealers in 
bourbon, rye, and domestic whiskies, and 

importers of wines and brandies 186 

Redheffer& Kocli. art dealers 121 

Reilly & Woll'ort, The Mammoth Stables and 

Broadway Mule Yards 98 

Remington Stanilard Type-Writer 76 

Rhodus' Sons, Thomas, commission mer- 
chants, etc .... 190 

Rii-e, Stix & Co., jobbers of dry goods 78 

Riddle, Rehbein & Co., proprietors of the 

Mississippi Planing Mills, etc 207 

Riverside Printing House, N. T. Gray, pro- 
prietor '. 174 



PAOE 

Robbins & Co , manufacturerg of varnish . 18:5 
Kociiester Machinery .Maimfacturing Co. lUl 
Rohan Bros. Boiler Manufflclirring Co., 
The, manufacturers of all kinds of steam 

boilers and sheet iron W(>rk,s !29 

Ronan Bros., manulaciurers of line shoes 203 

Roos, Leonliard, manufacturer of ladies' 

line furs 94 

Rosebrough Sons, R. L. marble works 68 

Rosenfeld, .M., manui'acturer of trunks, va- 
lises and tiaveliiig bags 134 

Rosenthal & (;o., F. W., importers and joli- 
bers of wall paper, carpets and curtain 

goods 191 

Rosenthal & Co., I. B., importers, manu- 
facturers and jobbers of millinery goods 177 
Rubehnann Hardware Co., The (ieo. A., 

dealers in cabinet and general hai'dware. . 180 
Rumsey— The L. M l!uin.«ey Manufacturing 
Co., inanniacturcis and jobbers of pumps, 
wood and iron working inacliincry, Iduu- 
dry and railway supi)lies, agriciiltinal im- 
plements, engines and boilers, hoisting 
machinery, plun)bers' sui)plies, belting, 
lead pipe", sheet lead, barbed wire fence. 95 

Samuel— The E. M. Samuel & Sons Com- 
mission Co .. 72 

Sauerwein, I!., manufacturer of brewers' 
I)itch, shelhu; variiisli, Itottle wax, etc 219 

Saunders & Co., J. F., i)rodiice, packers of 
green and dry fruits and veget»lble^ 186 

Sawyer & Co , F. O , manufacturers of a-d 
dealers in paper, etc; 127 

Scalzo, Son & Co., v., inii)orters and whole- 
sale dealers in foreign, California antl 
tropical fruit 130 

Schneffer Bros. & Powell, manufacturers of 
soaps, candles, relined lard, red oiI,gl\cer- 
ine and tallow 157 

Schafer, Sch warts & Co., wholesale boots 
and shoes 198 

Schmidt, Frederick, manufacturer of horse- 
collars 218 

Schnaider— The Joseph Schnaider Brewing 
Co 166 

Schreiner, Flack & Co., commission mer- 
chants 118 

Schiilenburg & Boeckler Lumber Co., plan- 
ing mill, yards, saw-mill, eic 67 

Schulte, Ceo. J., & Co, general commission 
merchants 119 

Srhwali Clothing Co., The, manufacturers 
and jobbers 109 

Scliwartz Bros., F., general commission mer- 
<'hants 16.1 

Seed Dry Plate Co., The M. A IM 

Seidel & Winkler, carpenters and joiners. Is? 

Sellers, John M., manufacturer of tire and 
water proof gravel and composition roots 
and roofing materials 166 

Shnltz Belting Co., The, manufacturers of 
Shultz patent tilled leather belting, lace 
and picker leather, etc 132 

Smith, Fritz, manufacturer of indigo wash 
blue, writing and coiiying inks, sewing ma- 
chine oil, toilet soaps, etc 222 

Southern Boiler and Sheet Iron AVorks, 
Richard (larstang, proprietor 118 

Southern Cooperage Co., The, manufactur- 
ers of barrels, I- cgs and well buckets 103 

Southern Hotel, The, Henry C. Lewis, man- 
ager 170 

Soutliern Wire Co., The, manufacturers of 
steel barbed fence wire, staples, etc 69 

Spcer, .Tones & Co., manufacturers of line 
machinerv oils, greases, etc 78 

Steinwende'r, stoftregen Ao Co., coffee roast- 
ers, sjiice grinders and manufacturers of 
mustards and ketchups ... 205 

Stifel. Chas G Stilel's Brewing Co o6 

St. James Hotel, Tlios. P Miller, proprietor 118 

St Lonis Ammonia andChemical Co ^nami- 
faclurers of finest quality of ammonia for 
chemical and druggists' tise and for refrig- 
erating purposes 125 



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PAGE 

St. Louis and Mississippi Valley Transporta- 
tion Co., Tlie (steamer and barge line).... U9 

St. Louis Bolt and Iron Co., proprietors Tu- 
dor Iron AVorks 127 

St. Louis Carriage Manufacturing Co., man- 
ufacturers of carriages, barouches, bug- 
gies, spriug wagons, etc 99 

St. Louis Coal Tar Co., manufacturers of 
rooting and paving materials, slieatliing, 
felt, etc 122 

Si. Louis Coffin;Co., The, manufacturers of 
Collins, caskets and undertakers' supplies. 185 

St. Louis Dairy Co., The 181 

St. Lt>uisDry I'late Co., The, manufacturers 
of gelatine dry i)lates 84 

St. Louis Hardware and Cutlery Co., The, 
exclusive jobbers of hardware and cutlery 102 

St. Louis Illuminating Co., furnishing elec- 
tric light from central stations 193 

St. Louis Malleable Iron Co., The, manufact- 
urers of mallealile ii'on, stove plate, clevi- 
ses, wagon an i carriage nialleables, light 
gray iron castings, blacksmith forges and 
Lteneral liardware (see also advertising 
pages) 122 

St. Louis ManufacturingCo., The 117 

St. Louis Mutual Fire Insurance Co 171 

St. Louis News Co.. The 147 

St. Louis Holler Uepair Co 167 

St. LonisSash Weight Co , manufacturers of 
solid eye sash weights and special castings 141 

St. Louis Saw Works, The, IJranch, Crookes 
& Co. .proprietors, manufacturers of saws, 
planing knives, etc 150 

St ijouis Shot Tower, G. W. Chadbourne & 
Co 66 

St Louis Steam Forge and Iron Works, A. 
JIcDonald >V: I?ro., proprietors 104 

St. Louis Steam Heating and Ventilating Co. 
Heating oflices, stores, etc., by most ap- 
proved methods (see also advertising 
pages) 77 

St. Louis Type Foundry, manufacturers of 
and dealers in all kinds of printing ma- 
terials, paper, etc 85 

St. Louis Union vStock Yard Co 177 

St. Louis Wire Mill Co., The 136 

Stone Hill AVine Co., The (\Vm. Herzog and 
(ieo. Starck), Avine growers and dealers in 
Missouri wines 133 

Straus "addlery Co., The Jacob, wholesale 
manufacturers of saddlery and jobbers of 
saddlery hardware " 182 

Sumner, Stratton and Davis, manufacturers 
of looking glasses; beveling, re-silvering 
and embossing 212 

Taussig Brothers & Co., wool and woolen 
goods 159 

Teichmann Commission Co., The, grain and 
flour commission merchants 149 



PAGE. 

Ten Broek & Jones, collectors, estates, bank- 
ruptcy 152 

Tennent, Walker & Co. , manufacturers of 
and wholesale dealers in boots and shoes .. 87 

Thorn A Fullerton, stair builders, etc 163 

Tinker* Smith Malting Co., proprietors of 
Franklin and Spring Water Malt Houses, 
and liock >prings 1 listillery 93 

Trask Fish Company, ocean and lake fish 202 

Trorlicht & Duncker, importers, wliolesale 
and retail dealers in carpets, oil cloths, 
matting and curtain goods 221 

Tudor Iron Works, The St Louis Bolt and 
Iron Co., proprietors 127 

Turner & Co., Chas. H.,real estate and finan- 
cial agents 147 

Udell & Co., C. E., cheese dealers 186 

Udell & Crunden, manuiactiirers and jobbers 

of wooden and willow ware, etc 125 

Ungar & Co., A., steam printers and binders. 185 

Waldeck & Co., Jacob C. C, general pro- 
vision dealers, etc. 151 

Warren, Andrew, railway supplies; agent 
for Otis Iron and Steel Co., etc 109 

Warren & Co , Samuel D., manufacturers of 
felt and composition rooting; agents for 
Barbo'r Asphalt Paving Co., etc 155 

Waters Pierce Oil Co., manufacturers, pe- 
troleum leJinery, etc 65 

Western Bath Tub and Manuf.acturing Co , 
manufacturers of bath tubs, plumbers' cop- 
per ware, etc 220 

Western Forge and Tool Works, The, manu 
facturers or railroad track tools and forg- 
ings, oil and artesian well drilling, quarry 
and mining implements, engine and ma- 
chine forcing, bridse and roofing bolts, etc 100 

Western NairCo..The, of Belleville, 111., 
.Joseph I. Swan, St. Louis agent 117 

Western Kailroad Lamp and Lantern Manu- 
factory, F. Meyrose ■& Co., proprietors. . 141 

Wheeler. James, & Co., live stock comuiis 
sion merchants 73 

Whitelaw, James, printers' machinists 15^ 

White Sewing Machine Co., The . 138 

Whittaker ASons, ^'rancis, packers »nd pro- 
vision merchants, "Star" sugar cured hams 
(see also advertising pages") 201 

Williamson's Drug Store, Dr. E. J. William- 
son, proprietor 178 

Winkelmeyer. The Julius Winkelmeyer 
Brewing .Association 82 

Withmar fie Co., A., direct importers and 
dealers in china, cpaeensware, etc. ; glass 
engraving and china decorating 220 

Worraer & Sons, G. S.. The Rochester Ma- 
chinery Manufacturing Co 191 

Wright "v Co., T., dealers in and importers 
of fine cigars. 150 



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228 



THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 



ADVERTISERS' INDEX. 



PAGE. 

Anchor Iron Works, Daniel Kerwin, pro- 
prietor 244 

Barbee, W. T., wrought iron fence and wire 

works 235 

Beclit()ld& Co., general book manufacturers 2>9 

Bergman & Cornet, real estate agents -^40 

Boggs, \Vm., dealer in broom corn, etc -232 

Booth & Sons, J. W., grain commission mer- 
chants 233 

Buck's Brilliant Stoves and Ranges (see also 

page )58) 235 

Buschman & Sons, L. W., flonr and grain 

commission merchants 240 

Central Union Brass Co., manufacturers of 

brass car trimmings, castings, etc 240 

Commercial Printing Co 228 

Derby & Day Distilling Co 244 

Drey & Kalih, importers and manufacturers 
of French and American plate glass 241 

Diamond Jo. Line Steamers, St. Louis and 
St. Paul (see also iiage 'ill) 230 

Donnell Mauufacturing Co., grocers' sun- 
dries and ilruggists' specialties 233 

Elstncr i^- Co , J. M., publishers Industries 
St. Louis, San Francisco, Cal., New Or- 
leans, La., Minneapolis and St. Paul, 
Minn 234 

Falh, Ewald & Co., commission merchants 237 

Forbes, James H., jobber in teas 233 

Future City Oil Works, J. J. Powers & Co , 
proprietors 2:58 

Gast & Co., Aug., lithographers and engrav- 
ers, second page cover ( see also pages 
160-1) 

Germania Insurance Co., New York 232 

Gerst Bros. Manufacturing Co. ( see aiso 

page 85) 243 

Gignoux, Alexis, grain, wool, hides, etc 241 

Glenny Bros. Glass Co 239 

Gooch Freezer Co., Cincinnati, O., patent 

ice cream freezers 237 

Hayden P. Hayden Saddlery Hardware Co. 239 
Haven & Co., N. A., manufacturers' agents 
and brokers in lumber, etc 240 



PAGE. 

Hurricane Granite Co., J. W. Mitchell 245 

Jefferson Insurance Co., St. Lonis 232 

Krite & Co.,H. B., importers of fancy goods, 

notions, etc " 245 

Kunz, Henry, malster 24l 

lyaclede Mutual Fire Insurance Co 245 

Leschen & Sons, A., manufacturers of wire 

roye, etc 241 

Libby & Williams Paper Co 247 

Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co .. third page cover. 

Messnier, Ferd., Faucet Manufacturing Co. 243 
Mette&Kanne, whfilesale liquor dealers... 233 
Meyberg & Uothschild Bros, (see also page 

194) 242 

Meyer & Bulte, flour; millers and agents 233 

Mound City Distilling Co. .fourth page cover 

(see also" page 120). 

Orr & Lindsley, boots and shoes 237 

Peckham & Co., O. H., manufacturing con- 
fectioners 236 

Phoenix Iron Works, Wm. Ellison & Son 241 

Smith, Beggs & Ranken Machine Co 231 

Standard Foundry Co., iron founders 236 

St. I.ouis Doiler Yard, Joseph F. Wanglcr, 

proprietor 239 

St. Louis Mnlleable Iron Co., (see also page 

122) 234 

St. Louis Steam Heating and Ventilating Co. 

(see also page 77) 218 

241 
236 



Walter & Ambruster, horse collars 

Weinheimer & Co., manufacturers of fine 

cigar boxes, etc 

Western Bell and Metal Co., H. Stuckstede & 

Co., proprietors 

Western Electrotype Co 

VVhittaker & Sons", Francis (see also page 

201) 

Wieder PaintCo 

Wilson & Sons, wholesale manufacturers 

pieced tinware, etc 

Wilson-Obear Grocer Co 



232 
246 



242 
236 



242 
232 



CHAS. H. DAVIS, Treasurer. 



EDWIN FREEGARD, Secretary. 



PRINTING. 



TO OBTAIN GOOD WORK AT REASONABLE PRICES, GO TO 

COMMEECIAL 

FEINTING 

COMPANY, 

200 »♦' 202 SOUTH FOURTH STREET, ST. LOUIS. 



THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 



229 



Tke Leading IsqIs Maiifaekilng louse of the West. 



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-Gte: XV e: h..a.t:m- 



0olt |t[anttfacturer^ -^^ mok mnkY§ 



FOR THE TRADE AND THE PUBLIC. 



212 M 



a. 



:^,*g,c — ^^-<- 



BIND EDITIONS IN CALF, SHEEP, CLOTH or MOROCCO. 



Hirst-olass Qaw Worl? rHacle a specialty. 

Job Book Binding. 

OLD BOOKS REBOUND IN EVERY VARIETY OF STYLE AND PRICE. 

PERIODICALS, MAGAZIJfES, ETC. 

oall and see our ^amples and aet our I rices. We 
defy competition. 

U/b makB and stamp cases far Publishers, Printers and Binders here and elsBu/here, 



230 



THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 



Biim©ii I© Mm Eteamiii 

FOR ST. PAUL, MINNETONKA, AND ALL 
NORTHERN SUMMER RESORTS. 



Fine, Fast, Electric Light Passenger Packets. Avoid the dust and discomforts of 
Railroad Travel. Cheapest and most desirable trip you can take. 
Only Through Line to St. Paul without transfer, at 
all stages of water. Cool, airy state- 
rooms, and splendid meals. 




-HtSteaniers leave St. Louis 3}e<- 

Tnesday, Tlinrsday and Saturday at 4: p. m. 

FROM "\AZ"Hi5RFB^AT 

St. Ij<3i:l1s. 

For SOUVEJVIR of the UPPER MI S ST SSI P PI 



—AND— 



EX 



ISAAC P. LUSK, 

General Agent 



THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUI; 



^31 



JOHNSTON BEGGS, 

President. 



ANTHONY W. SMITH, 



Vice-Pfesident. 



JOHN D. RANKEN, 

Sec. aid Treas. 




MANUFACTURERS Of 



I # -^ CORLISS, PISTON AND SLIDE VALVE ^^ m \ 



W^_ 



] 



STEAM, HYDRAULIC AND HAND 



Saw and Grist Mill Machinery. 

Shafting, Pulleys, Hangers, Etc. 
Office and Works: 

2201 TO 2217 N. MAIN STREET, 

ST. LOUIS, MO. 

©end for illustrated oatQlo9ues-. 



232 THE INDUSTR'IES OF ST. LOUIS. 




We^fcer'n Bell ^^" IVjetial do. 

^'-'t p. ^JpaCK^TEDE ^' CO. i> 

ESTABLISHED 1S">5. 

Manufacturers of Church, Academy, Steamboat, 

Factory and School House 



Fire Alarm, Plantation, Chimes and Peals of Bells. 
' ^^ BABBITT-METAI., ;>OL,DER, 

TIN IN PIGS AND BARS, BAR AND PIG LEAD, CAR BRASSES, ETC. 
1312 & 1314 South Second Street, ST. LOUIS MO. 



ESTABLISHED IN 1865. 

WILLIAM BOGGS, 

-< " :=^ DEALER IN < : : ■■»- 

Broom Corn and Broom Manufacturers' Supplies, 

Nos. 202, 204, 206 and 208 SOUTH THIRD ST., 



ROBERT M. WILSON, President. THOMAS S. OBEAR, Vice-President. 

. U/ll^S0|^l-0BEflI^ (^^0(^1^ (?0. 

SUCCESSOR TO 

TOon \ PotWiq#[Uiii. F. Obeai' \ (^o. 

19, 21, 23 and 25 South Second Street, 
ST. LOUIS, MO. 



H. EISENHARDT, President. C. R. FRITSCH, Secretary. 



.ivjui^. ,«r\i^i , ricbiueiu. \^, K. hKI I bCH, beCt 

Jeffer'^oij h$mm Company, 



ST. LOUIS. 

^y^ ASSETS, $400,000. 



^efmaijia Fire In^uraqee Co., of WeW ta, 

C. R FRITSCH, MANAGER FOR ST. LOUIS, ^ 



THE INDUSTRIES OK ST. LOUIS. 



'33 



JOHN F. MEYER, 



HENRY BULTE. 



Meyer & Bt^ilte, 



ESTABLISHED 1854. 




MILLERS AND AGENTS 




214 & 216 SOUTH MAIN STREET. 



ESTABLISHED IN 1853. 

Jobber in T^eas, 

413, 415, 417 Franklin Ave., ST. LOUIS, MO. 



DONNELL MANUFACTURING CO. 
Grocers' Sundries and Druggists' Specialties, 

105 SOUTH SEVENTH STREET, SAINT LOUIS. 



ESTABLISHED 1848 



J. W. Booth & Son«, 






»@A> 



-M COIVriVlISSION ]V[KRCHANTvS :g) 



«rn 



■33^ 



Rooms 5 & 6. 210 & 212 N. Third Street, 

SAINT LOUIS. 

club !Etoptictoz.3 o[' l"fve §1". (^ol:tl'ia.t.6 Sicily o^^ i t" I'c ^.^ , 



234 



THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 



St Louis Malleable Iron Co, 

2108 TO 2128 Market Street. 




FiLLEY'S "DIAMOND F" SLOTTED BALL VALVE TUYERE IRON. 

Blacksmiths' Supplies. Forges, Tire Drills, Vises, 

Swage Blocks. Mandrills, Tire Benders 

and Tuyere Irons. 



J. M. lliSf ill I CO. 



P U BLISI-iERSP 

THE INDUSTRIES OF SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 

THE INDUSTRIES OF NEW ORLEANS, LA 

THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS, MO. 

THE INDUSTRIES OF MINNEAPOLIS, MiNN — In preparation. 

THE INDUSTRIES OF ST, PAUL, MINN.— In preparation 

210 AND 212 NORTH THIRD STREET, 

ST. LOUIS, MO 




AND 87 Boston Block, COO Hennepin avenue, 

MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. 



THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 



235 




WROUGHT IRON FENCE AND WIRE WORKS. 



.y a. 

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ra CO 



Cut shows our STANDARD FENCE with patent ground anchorage and line posts 

for every panel. 
Superior to ajd obviating the necessity and expense of stone foundations. CHEAPSpR 
THAN WOOD. Will last a life-time without resetting or any repairs. CORRESPONDENCE 
SOLICITED. Send the number of feet required, with number of gates and large posts, and 
price w;!l bo r-iven. 

Address P. L BETTS, Manager, 517 Pine Street, ST. LOUIS, MO. 



236 THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 



0. H. PECKHAM. GEO. C PECKHAM. 

0. H. PECKHAM S CO. 

/T\a9ufa(;tdri9<^ QD9f(^(;tio9(^r3 

405, 407 & 409 N. Main Street, 
ST. LOUIS. 



MANUFACTURERS OF 

;Kine Ciorar Boxes? 



AND DEALERS IN ' 

CIGAR BOX MATERIAL, 

813 Walnut Street. ST, LOUIS, MO. 




MANUFACTURERS 
AND DEALERS 



i^der paipt Qo. 

pai9t5, Oils, ($olor5, l/ar^ist^es, 

< » ^ • ) BRUSHES, WINDOW GLASS, 



704 & 706 N. Fourth St., ST. LOUIS. 



617^ Standard poupdry ^0. 

IRON FOUNDERS, 

G &. E TODD, President and Treasurer 

Capacity, 120 Machine Moulded Pulley Castings Per Day. 

Grate Bars and Fire Fronts a Specialty. 

Office, 1.2^0 COI-iXjin^TS STJ^EET, 

ST. LOUIS, MO. 



THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 



237 



THE 



Ejooch patent Ice Gi'eani Fi'eezei^g. 

Those Froezers are entirely 
different from any other make 
in themarliet. By their simplic- 
ity of construction and perfect 
adaptability to the process of 
making all kinds of Ice Cream, 
Sherbets, Frozen Fruits, etc., 
they have taken the front rank 
in the market and are univers- 
ally acknowledsed THE BEST 
FREEZERS MADE. 

Dealers are constantly tak- 
ing up the sale of them, and are 
discarding inferior Freezers 
heretofore thought good ones. 
Our increase of sales has been 

NINE HUNDRED PER CENT SINCE 

1879, thus showing their great 
popularity. 

The "Peerless" are made 
S-qiiart to 10-quart for family 
use; the "G ant" with fly-wheel 
14-quart to 42-quart for confec- 
tioners and hotels. 

For Sale by the leading St Louis Hardware and Queens ware Trade. 

THE 600CH FREEZER CO. 

ESTABLISHED 1864. 

KathL, B\va.ld & Co. 

S^^IliTT XjOTJIS. 




WM. C. ORR. 



D. B. LINDSLEV. 



o< ORR f^^ LINDSLEY, >o 




519 WASHINGTON AVENUE, 
ST. LOUIS, MO. 



238 



THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 



Future City Oil Works, 

J. J. POWERS & CO., Proprietors, 

I rtanufacturers of orude, iyefined oncl Idlead^ed 



(^^s^PfsQts-^i 



OOTTON SEED OILJ 



OFFICE: 
6IO SOUTH MAIN STREET, 



■f 



WORKS : 
609, 61 l,OI3&6l5S. LEVEE, 



•ojU -«> <^ 5$«-.- 

Winter Yellow 0il, Winter Wbite 0il, 

Rummer Y ellow ^\\, ^ummer^ White ^1!, 

<aF> £alad 0il. 



FRiners 0il, White and Yellow, 

Ootton i^eed i^teanne, Wnite and Y ellow, 
i^oap i^StocI? I\eginninas. 

I araaon ooobing Uil, 

For Baking Purposes, and for Family Use. One Pound equal to Two Pounds of Lard. 
Guaranteed to remain sweet in any climate 



Sotton ^eed Oil gal^e and Gotten ^eed FReal 

For Cattle Food and Fertilizing Purposes 



Orders from Jobbers and Uraniifacliirers Solicited. ''^J^ 



THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 239 



ESTw^BJLISHIIEID 1825. 



P.HA'Yden Saddlery Hardware Co. 



Successors to HAYDENS &. ALLEN, 

MANUFACTORERS OF 



Hames, Harness, Collars, Chains, Saddles, 
Blind Bridles, Saddlery Hardware, and Back Bands. 

WHOLESALE DEALERS IN LEATHER. 

510 & 512 NORTH Main Street, - - ST, LOUIS, MO. 



JOSEPH F. WANCLER- 

WANUFACTUKBR •» 

STEAM BOILERS of every DESCRIPTION 

Lard and Oil Tanks, Coolers, Kettles, Pans, etc. 

Also all kinds of Sheet Iron Work. 
1019 to 1023 North Main Street, near Carr, - - ST. LOUIS, MO. 



GENERAL REPAIRING PROMPTLY DONE. 



GLENNY BROS. GLASS CO., 



IMFORTBRS OF 



German and French Looking Glass Plates, 

French Window and Picture Glass, Car, Coach, Photo, 

Colored, Cathedral, Ground, Embossed, Cut, 

Enameled, Rough and Fluted Glass. 

ALSO Dealers in American Window Glass. 

SOLE AGENTS FOR ST. LOOIS FOR THE 

Genuine French Mirror Plates, 
112 North Sixth Street, - - ST. LOUIS, MO. 



240 THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 



N. A. HAVEN & CO.. 

MANUFACTURERS' AGENTS AND BROKERS IN 

Wliite and Yellow Pine and Hardwood Lumber, 

sniiTO-ij-ES, ETC., :e:tz:. 

SOUTHERN AGENTS FOR THE 

Excelsior and Chicago JLumber Dryer, 

— AND THE — 

CELEBRATED LUFKIN BOARD AND LOG RUbES. 

So. 34 Soutti Commercial Street, ST. L.OIJIS, MO. 

AUQ. 8ERGMANN. HENRY L. CORNET. 

Bergmann & Cornet, 

Housed. Real Estate Agents, 

110 N. EIGHTH STREET, ST. LOUIS, MO. 

Geo. KiNGSLAND, Prest. r. Gillespie, Supt. 

CENTRAL UNION BRASS CO, 



-MANUFACTURERS OF — 



BRASS CAR TRIMMINGS, 

And all kinds of Brass Castings, Bronze, Babbitt Metals, Solder, Etc., 

No. 811 North Second Street, - - ST. LOUIS, MO. 

L. W. BUSCHMAN. F. W. BUSCHMAN. E. L. BUSCHMAN. 

L. W. BUSCHMAN & Sons, 
Flour and Grain Commission Merchants, 

/Vos. It 01. 1102 and 1103 North Levee, ST. LOUIS, MO. 



.iiseral Advances made on Consignrnents. 



THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 



241 



A. Leschen. 



John A. Leschen. 



HENRV LK8CHEN. 



A. LESCHEN & SONS, 



-MANUFACTUEEKS OF- 




OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, ALSO 

Manilla Rape, Dakum, Sash Card; Twines, 

Tarred Lathyarn, Hemp Packing, etc, 

OFFICE AND warehouse: a^ / /I/// O FACTORY; 



903 and 905 North Main Street. 



Grand Ave., from Lee Ave., to Nortli 
St. Charles Road. 



DRBY& KAHN, 



IMPORTERS AND MANUFACT JRERS OF 



Fi^ENCH AND American Window and Plate Glass, 

LOOKING-GLASS PLATES, MIRRORS, MOULDINGS, ETC. 
512 and 514 St. Charles Street, ST. LOUIS, MO. 



Successor to Gignoux & Smillie. 

GRAIN, WOOL, HIDES, 

AND 

General Produce Commission Merchant, 



5 North Main Street, 



ST. LOUIS, MO. 



FOUNDRY AND MACHINE SHOPS. 



ft 



— MANUFACTURERS OF — 



Boilers, l^teani and Hand Elevator of an Improved Pattern, Kaw Jtlill, 
Flonr and Mining' JUachinery, Pulleys, Siiafiin^ and Haug;ers, 
Iron and Brass Castings made to Order. 

913 NORTH MAIN STREET, - - ST. LOUIS, MO 

REPAIRING PROMPTLY EXECUTED. 



242 



THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 



i 



J. .\ll,VBt;i{G. 



A. RorHSCHILIJ. 



DEstsbTolislieca. 1S5©. 



Jdlios Rothschfld. 



MEYBERG S ROTHSCHILD BROS. 



Manufacturers and dealers in 



HATS, CAPS, 

—AND— 

STRAW GOODS, 



FURS, GLOVES. 

—AND— 

UMBRELLAS. 



plo?. 401 \ 403 Horth Fifth ^tfeei!, ^T. LOUI^. 

FRANCIS WHITTAKER & SONS, 

— A.in>— 

Commission Merchants, 

ST. LOUIS. 

Specialty, Star Sugar Cured Hams. 




Wilson & Sons, 

WHOI.KSALE MANUFACTUKEK8 

PIECED TINWARE, 



DEALERS IN 



Japanned Tinware, 

©14 K, 'ffHIMB ST 




TIH9 C©PPKM, 

— AM1>— 

JOB TVORK. 

\ g'ff'. t€iUIS, MO. 



THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 



243 




m O 

CO T3 

cz 



No. 2 



SELF-VENTING BEER FAUCET. 

DEALERS IN ALL KINDS OF SALOON SUPPLIES. 

10 South Third Street, - - St. Louis, Mo 



244 THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 



HBNRY KUNZ, 

1411 ANN AVENUE, ST. LOUIS, MO. 

«nCf)OR ♦^ IROn ♦^ U]ORK$.i^ 

DANL KERWIN, Proprietor, 

GENERAL BUGKSMITHING, 

AND MANUFACTURER OF 

Elevator and .Steamboat Iron Work, BnildinciN, Etc., Railroad Bridge Bolts, CRr 

Irons, Txnipinsr Bars. <"row Bars, Spike Itlaiils. Chisels. Kwltoh Rods, Etc., 

Mtanehion Rods for Knildin^s. H«»g^ 4'IihIiis, Mtein Bands. Aiioliors 

and otiier Forg-ing for Steamboats, and Bolts of all descriptions. 

Nos. 805 & 806 North Levee, 

Between Cherry AND Morgan, C^'T^ T /^^T ^ T CI^ 



Centre of Block. 




Chas Walter. Henry Ambruster. 

WALTER & AMBRUSTER, 

Successors to J. W. DEMING, 

lyjanufactuiiei'^ of Hoii^e Collar?, 

8 & 10 North Commercial St., 

(Between Market and Chestnut,) 



Established 1842. fncorporated f88l 



DISTILLERS OF 

Orow^n Diamond^ Brand 
HRND-MADE SOUR MASH WHISKY. 

FAYETTE CO., 7th DISTRICT KY. 

$ffi.C3 ».3a.d 3«klesroorri., 20^ iTortla. Oorri,m.ercia,l Street, 



THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 



245 



Successors to NEUHAUS, KRITE & CO , 

IMPORTERS OF 



Fancy Goods, Notions, Toys, Musical Instruments, 

STATIONERS AUD DRUGGISTS' SUNDRIES. 



507 North Main Street, 

Between Washington Ave. and Vine. 



St. Louis, Mo. 



CHARTERED, JANUARY 14th, I860 



OIF' ST. LOUIS. 

SOUTHEAST COR. THIRD AND LOCUST STS. 

DIRECTORS: 

R.W.POWELL, F. L HAYDEL, JOSEPH O'NEIL, 

OLIVER GARRISON, THOS. SLEVIN, CHAS. H. TURNER, 

JOHN M. SELLERS, J. B. C. LUCAS, TRUMBULL G. RUSSELL. 

J. Q. BUEY, Jr., Sec. JOS. O'NEIL, Vioe-Prest. E. W. POWELL, Prest. 



HURRBCA 



RANITE COMPANY. 




New Post Office and Custom House, St. Louis. 

Mnnufacturers of and Dealers in all Vaiioties of GRANITE, for Monumental and Building Pur- 

p sea. Importers of Scotch Granite. Estimates and Designs Furnishel upon Application at 

Office and Warerooms, 1313 Washin^tou Ave., - ST. I^OIJIS, MO., 

Or sent by Mail if desired, JOHN W. MITCHELL, General Manager. 



246 



THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS, 




ThB most CnmuletB Establishment in the lUest. 






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imm 

'^ <i^i> <^r,;- . 









'*^4oi#.c(! 






/i lech^ofypers. 









O fereofypers, 



11/ 
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^ 



Telephone No. 1141. 

217 Pine St. ST. LOUIS, MO. 



n^7^avers. 



CIF^CULAF^, 

n/e ma'ke a LpBcialty af MEROHMNTj and 
MRNUFflCTURERS Engrai/mg ana ElBctraiyping^ 
such as Euildinqs Machmeru, Catalaaue lUiiEtra 
tians Etc., and solicit carresDnndencB :'nr in far 
matin n and 'pricEs, 




THE INDUSTRIES OP" ST. LOUIS. 24/ 



J. R. WILLIAMS, President. J. M. BULL, Secretary. 

PAPER CO., 

l^o. 421 North Second Street, 
ST. LOUIS. 



BOOK, 

NEWS, 

WRITING and 



WRAPPING 



PAPER 



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THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. 



JNO. D. RIPLEY, 
Sec. &. Treas. 



A. W. BENEDICT, 
President. 



D. M FITZGERALD 
Vice-Pres. &. Supt. 



SAINT LODIS 





atiiig lo. 



CONTRACTORS FOR 




Herting by Steam 

Stores, Residences, Churches 



AND 



^ALL PUBLIC BUILDINGS l> 

Plaqs, Specificatiorjs arjd Estiniates Buriiisljed 
62! OLIVE STREET. 




Works of 
L1GGETT& Myers 

„ TOBACCO Go 



LIGGETT & MYERS TOBACCO COMPANY. 

ISth and ST. CHARLES STREET, ST. LOUIS, 
MANUFACTURERS OF PLUG CHEWING TOBACCO, 



BRANDS. 


Size and Weight 
of Plug. 


Style of 
Plug. 


■a 
a> 

Ol 


Wght 
of 
Cut. 


Weight 


of Pacloge. 


Number of Plugs 
in Package. 






Inches. Oz. 






Ozs. 








Star 


Lbs. 


3 X 12 16 


Smooth 


7 


n 


12, 24 & 52.1b. Butts. 


12,-2.4 & 52 


74 


Lbs. 


3 X 12 16 


R&R 


7 


n 


24 




24 


74 


Clubs. 


l|x 12 12 


R& R 


6 


2 


30 




40 


A. A. 


Lbs. 


3 X 12 6 


Smooth 






27 




72 


Old Soldier 


Lbs. 


2 X 12 14 


R&R 


6 


2^ 


29 




30 


Sledge 


Lbs. 


2 X 12 15 


R&R 


6 


H 


28 




30 


Falcon 




2^x 9 8 


R&R 


3 


n 


28 




56 


L. &M. 


Lbs. 


3 X 12 15 


Smooth 


5 


3 


30 




32 


L. &M. 


3s. 


3x6 6 


Smooth 


4 


1^ 


27 




72 


L. &M. 




2x6 6 


{ R&R or 

I Smooth 


2 
2 


i\ 


27 




72 


Clipper 


Lbs. 


3 X 12 15 


Smooth 


5 


3 


30 
(20 

\27 


Cads. 


32 

54 ) 

72 ) 


Clipper 


3s. 


3x6 6 


Smooth 


4 


u 


Butts. 


Corner Stone 




2x6 6 


cR&R or 

( Smooth 


2 
2 


i\ 


27 




72 


Scalping Knife 




4x6 6 


R&R 


2 


3 


27 




72 


Scalping Knife 
Sam Bass 


Lbs. 


3 X 12 13 

4 X 12 15 


R&R 
R&R 


8 
5 


If 
3 


26 

14 & 28 




15 &30 






2 X 12 15 


R&R 


5 


3 


17 & 28 


115 & 30 



J.J. FISHeR.Prr.'l. 



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